Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have removed the deposits? 4. Ought the State to own the Railroads? 5. Should the Suffrage be granted to Women? 6. Should the Suffrage be still further limited? 7. Should a new College boat-house be built? 8. Ought Hamilton to have accepted Burr's challenge? The first draft of the Theme will consist of a brief or scheme, containing only the heads of the argument. This will be criticised by the instructor and returned to the student to be written out. The completed production will be subjected to no further criticism, but will be marked on its merits, largely...
...greater number of them are mere fire-traps, where any sudden violent conflagration late at night would be attended by a lamentable loss of life. The different entries are shut off from each other, and the stairways are mostly built in a spiral style that would furnish a tremendous draft for the flames and cut off escape. The danger is immediate and continual, and the action of the authorities at Princeton in providing fire-escapes is an example we could well wish to see imitated here. At Princeton there was once an outbreak of malarial fever among the students that...
...York Harvard Club met Saturday and elected fifteen new members. Three hundred dollars were appropriated to be forwarded to President Eliot to be used in aid of deserving students. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Dr. Bellows...
...committee of five elected at the preliminary meeting to draft a constitution for the co-operative society, and to call a general meeting of those interested in the plan, met on Thursday evening, and after adopting a set of articles, voted that they should be published in full in the Harvard morning papers on Monday, and that the general meeting of the university should be held in Holden chapel at 7.30 P. M., Tuesday, Feb. 28th. All persons connected with the university are invited to be present...
VERILY, I put my hand out to let a draft of fresh air into an ill-ventilated spot, and, 10, I hit upon a hornet's nest! Within the few short days that have passed since my communication appeared, no less than three letters have been written on the subject, and I understand there are some more in store for me, wretched one! Let it be understood, however, that "J. N. M." is by no means so ferocious as might be supposed from the warmth with which the controversy is conducted. So small is, in fact, his bump of pugnaciousness...