Word: renewing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sense of the word an advertisement. Last year the benefit accrued, and was intended to accrue to the graduates rather than to the college or the members of the Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee club itself that we believe the action of the faculty...
...clubs last year was extremely creditable. From every point of view the trip was successful, and it is difficult to see how anything but good resulted. The concerts were, in reality. Harvard reunions, giving the graduates in the distant states chances which no other occasions would afford-to renew their love and loyalty for the college by the reawakening of old memories and by mingling with the undergraduates of today. We sincerely hope that the matter will be carefully considered by the faculty before the petition is finally acted upon...
...propose two methods of protection of our rights. 1. If one in every twenty men in college would give a cent we could win one of the blue gentry who watch the ball games. The only difficulty is that the tormenters may be their own sons and heirs. 2. Renew the student-police which was in force about two years ago. I am ready to form one of twenty-five, to stand in the yard an hour with a bat and whang every mucker who dares to visit the yard...
Several years ago an attempt was made at Columbia to hold a ball, but owing to the poor reception the ball met with, succeeding classes did not care to renew the experiment. The object in holding the ball was to fill up the gap caused by the absence of real social life and social amusements. This year's junior class has, however, not been deterred by this rather poor precedent from renewing the venture. They decided to hold a Christmas ball in aid of the 'varsity crew and obtained permission from the faculty to use the library tomorrow night...
...uplifting influence of his life among us. It is for our own sakes, as well as for his, that we are sorry he must leave a work in which he takes so deep an interest. We earnestly hope that recovered health may soon make it possible for him to renew his close relation with...