Word: complement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...creation of the Graduate School is the complement and neccessary outcome of the elective system; and the first movement in the direction of systematic instruction for graduates was made by President Eliot in the very first weeks after his accession to office. The Faculty bear their testimony to the strong and steady faith with which the President has supported the Graduate School from the beginning, through its long years of insignificance and of apparent failure to justify the aspirations with which it was founded; and congratulate him on the result, which now makes that School one of the most important...
...words of introduction best show the character of the work. The book he says, "is exactly what its title represents it to be, some college verse - and nothing more." He hopes "that it may find a corner in the domain of lighter verse, that it may be a congenial complement to the old brier root during some idle hour of undergraduate life, and that it may awaken in those who have left their Alma Mater, the sleeping memories of that happy, careless past, - memories which neither time nor adversity nor absence can efface...
...Rathborne; "Swan Shooting on the Columbia," by T. G. Farrell; "In December." a stanza by Louise by Louise Phillips; "Pastor Park's Assistant," by J. D. Plumb; "Retrospect," by J. R. G.; "Foot Ball-Detail of Defensive Play," by Waiter Camp. This article, which is the complement to another article by the same author, which appeared last month; is of interest to college men. The statemens are, however, extremely general and convey but a slight amount of information. The author gives some idea of the duties of the players in defensive play but very little of the action...
When the college year once gees under way it is generally the custom for Harvard students to set about the organization of new clubs. We hope that there will be no such tendency this year. The college has now its full complement of societies representing every department of study and of amusement. A new organization can expect only to be an unwelcome and an uncalled for addition to those already existing. Undergraduate life at Harvard has become so busy that, what with the evening lectures, club meetings and social obligations, many men begin to find it hard to fulfill their...
...what the Union boats were like he found three species of the same genus. Having nobody to look to Mr. Blaikie had to wait many weeks to find some one to give him more explicit orders. It is not probable that the boat-house will have its full complement of boats this year. but enough will be got ready to furnish rowing to a large number...