Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems appropriate to remind the present Seniors of their responsibility in the matter of voluntary recitations. Voluntary recitations must be regarded as still on trial, as they have not yet received the formal and permanent sanction of the authorities, and when it is remembered that this the second year of the trial will be held peculiarly decisive, it becomes the obvious duty of Seniors to avail themselves but sparingly of the privilege of cutting. Like the orator who spoke not to his audience but to posterity, the Seniors should feel the gravity of their position. It rests in great part...
...here becomes necessary to summon this spirit from its vasty deep into such shallow water as the elements of logic, where he will learn that affirmative propositions do not distribute their predicates, and that the middle term of a syllogism should be used univocally. It is also necessary to remind him of the generally acknowledged fact, that a cause is not identical with its result. Indifference, a momentary consequence of liberal training, is not the cause of proper mental development, except so far as, in the sense of an unbiassed mind, it is a prerequisite of liberal thought...
...Harvard builds grand Memorial Halls, but the student turns away from their magnificent proportions to gaze upon Hollis, Massachusetts, and Stoughton Halls, rich with memories of the past. It must be confessed that they are not calculated to remind one of home. The wood-work is rough and unpainted; the windows are dirty and dim; the walls are dingy and smoked. Yet the Harvard student counts it a privilege to stretch his limbs beneath their mossy roofs, and the older the building is the more valuable becomes his habitation. He cares not for the rickety stairs or unpainted walls...
...Class-Day Committee wish to remind Seniors that all those who do not call for their tickets on or before June 22d (Tuesday), will forfeit their right to them...
...would remind the class of Seventy-seven that a few more numbers of the Magenta will close this volume; that at its close the Editors of Seventy-five withdraw from active duties on the board, and their places will be supplied by Sophomores. With the writing of some of the class we are already acquainted, and are satisfied that there is ability there which will assure the success of the Magenta. But some of its best writers have contributed but sparingly, and others are known to us entirely by repute, and to both these classes we address an invitation...