Word: seconding
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...second point is of rather more importance. By law, voting for Overseers is allowed only in person in Cambridge. Of course only a small portion can be here on Commencement Day, and by this provision the majority are deprived of their suffrage. And there is no need of this, for votes could be received by proxy, and thus all who cared to have a voice in the management of the College could do so. Usually there is very little rivalry for the office of Overseers, and the result of the election is satisfactory to everybody. Still there may come...
...class in heavy gymnastics, numbering seventy-eight members, is divided into four sections according to strength. Twenty-eight marks are required to enter the first division, twenty-two the second, seventeen the third, and twelve the fourth. The basis for assigning marks is as follows: "The applicant places himself between the parallel bars, resting upon his hands with arms straight. He then lowers himself by bending the arms until they are in a flexed condition, then rises again. One mark is allowed each time he rises. The flexors of the arms and some of the chest-muscles are tested...
...will excuse me for being so horribly methodical, I will divide them into four classes, of each of which I will speak separately. The first consists of societies which have some serious object in view, which may be roughly described as the pursuit of Cape Flyaway; the second of open societies, which are devoted to amusement; the third of clubs proper, where you can get wine and cigars and gossip of the most correct sort at the cheapest price; and the fourth of secret societies, of which the objects are unknown and the names are forbidden words...
...more, to arrange the menu to better suit their respective tastes. These extra dishes are to be prepared by the steward, and furnished at a price just large enough to cover the cost of supplying them, and the list is to be comprehensive enough to make our Memorial table second to none within our reach...
...every day of their lives. We are not born to great fortunes and to names which of themselves carry men through the world. Each of us must make his own way for himself; and if he wishes to maintain the honor of his name, and the honor of the second name that old Harvard gives us leave to bear, he must work to do it. He must be something. He must do something, and he must do it with all his might...