Word: making
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...matter how many homeless wretches may long to rest their limbs within. We have examined the matter and find that the case is not quite as bad as this. One cannot give his room to any particular man, but the new arrangement provides a way by which he can make over his right to several men, as it were, who will struggle among themselves, and the luckiest will take the room...
...room which he desires to dispose of must make a statement to that effect at the Bursar's office. A list will be made, probably in June, of the rooms whose holders do not intend to occupy them; applications will be received for these rooms precisely as they are received before the annual allotment; a drawing will then be made by lot and the result will be published. During the summer this process will be repeated whenever there are rooms put up at the Bursar's office. The main objection to the plan is its inconvenience. The charges of unfairness...
SEVERAL changes have been made in reference to the required work of Junior and Sophomore years. The movement which tends to make our courses of study more and more elective is steadily progressing, and we may hope to see in a year or two all required studies confined to Freshman year...
...absolutely necessary that the right man be chosen for the place. There must be no mistakes this year in the management of the race. The demands that have been made of the city of Springfield are reasonable. It is simply asked to keep order and protect spectators, and to make an expenditure of money which is very small. On general principles, we are opposed to any sort of connection between the general public and the race. It is purely a college affair, with which the public should have but a passive interest. During the past few years, however...
...learn from an exchange that a Baltimore City scholarship, five university scholarships, and ten fellowships, yielding $500 each, have been established at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore. These fellowships are needed in every institution which lays a claim to be called a "University," but they fail to make the university. If we could offer here the means of living to a score or two of graduates each year, we should have almost the last requirement toward making Harvard a university in the sense that Cambridge and Oxford are universities. But we must wait until those who leave money...