Word: straying
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...though the regular meetings are not announced in the calendar, the seminary work constantly done is of high grade. A continual comparison of the calendar with the corresponding numbers of previous years is more and more gratifying to a Harvard man as time goes. He watches the evolution of stray lectures into organized series and seminary meetings and realizes as he could not otherwise what work is being done here...
...publicity that can be given to it and we take this occasion of bringing it before the students. There is certainly enough open space at the disposition of players for them to carry on this exercise elsewhere than in the neighborhood of apparatus which may be damaged by stray balls. Moreover when the faculty has been so courteous as merely to call attention to the careless habit and leave the matter to be righted by student action, it is only right for the students to obey as promptly as if they were obliged...
Considerable damage has been done already in the way of breaking glass, and a greater injury is threatened to apparatus of a valuable kind left near windows exposed to the stray balls. Of course the Faculty could deal with matter directly, and take steps to protect the property by regulations and penalties, but it greatly prefers to leave a matter of this kind to be righted by student action. Acting upon this preference, which I am sure you will be glad to justify, it requests the Athletic Association or its officers to take such steps as may make further action...