Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent has written us asking why the meeting room at the gymnasium is kept locked and if there is any way of getting into it. The room in question has been in the past frequented by numbers of small boys who were making a sort of club-room of it. To prevent this it was found necessary to keep it locked. Any one, however, who wishes to be admitted to it can obtain a key by applying at the office of the gymnasium or to any of the attendants...
While Dr. McCosh, president of Princeton, argues for more study and less athletics, Dr. Eliot, president of Harvard, remarks: "It is agreed on all hands that the increased attention given to physical exercise and athletic sports within the past twenty-five years has been on the whole of great advantage to the university, and that the average physique of the mass of the students has been sensibly improved." Harvard certainly turns out as good scholars as Princeton, and its students are better disciplined. President Eliot's views are sounder than those of President McCosh...
...learn from the Treasurer's Report that the total amount of gifts for immediate use received by the University during the past year...
PROFESSOR to Junior, who comes late to a quarter-past eight recitation: "We thought you were dead, Mr. Blim." Mr. Blim (solemnly): "Not dead, but sleeping...
...friend the Acta Columbiana is always up to time with a judicious assortment of poetry and prose, as a rule very good; and though it has given many hard knocks to Harvard during the past three months, we can make allowances, and start the new year with every wish for continued success...