Word: formed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hayes met his voluntary class in Elocution yesterday afternoon for the first time. The large number of men present, almost thirty, shows that interest in this branch of instruction has by no means diminished, in spite of Mr. Hayes' inability to form a class earlier. At the next meeting, Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal" will be read, and after that is finished, selections from Fletcher's "Advanced Readings and Recitations." The class will meet twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2 o'clock...
...true purposes of the University. The opinion of the Board of Overseers as to what is the best remedy for these evils seems to be well expressed in the regulations just passed. Their argument for the first vote appears to be that it is necessary for a student to form regular habits during his course at college, and that it is almost impossible for these regular habits to be formed unless "every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences...
...design submitted by George H. Ford for the trophies for the '88 Yale crew consists of a ring in the form of an oar, shaped like a snake ring, with the blade resting on the outside of the finger and bearing in blue enamel Yale vs. Harvard. The owner's name and date will be cut on the inside of the ring...
...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on "The Prospect of a Constitutional Government in Germany," before an audience interested in the subject, last night in Sever 5. He said that the first step towards a constitution was taken after the fall of Napoleon, when the confederation of the German states was formed. Up to 1848, however, there was virtually no constitution, as the bodies empowered to form one did not do so. The revolutions in all the other states in 1848 caused the monarchs of these states to yield, and a parliament representing the people was formed. In this the present German constitution...
...regretted that the Princetonian should see fit to decide upon the merits of the recent vote of our Board of Overseers without waiting for fuller information upon the question involved. It is a universal tendency of college journalism to form hasty opinions on insufficient knowledge of a matter, and it appears that the Princetonian has erred in this direction. Unfortunately, too, a vein of malice seems to appear, which wounds more than the unjust condemnation of our system of recitations...