Word: terms
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Voted, that no guest of a member of the Dining Association should be brought into the hall for a period longer than one week during each College term. For any longer time permission must be obtained from the auditor...
...still we cannot but feel that the existence of such an objection is, or ought to be, quite unnecessary. The employing of a man to take care of the track during the summer months would result in affording opportunity to our athletes to begin training as soon as the term opens, and would entirely do away with the possibility of such an unfortunate quandary in the future as at present exists; while the expense, we should think, could not fail of being much less than the Association will now have to incur before their track is again practically useful...
...mentioned only as representative of Boston booksellers, no copies are on hand, but if there were, they could be obtained for six dollars. Why is this firm out of copies? Because, as one of the salesmen explained to the writer, Mr. Sever came in before the term began and bought up all they had. Why do not Messrs. Lee & Shepard anticipate a demand for the book by students? Because Mr. Sever has the cooperation of the Harvard Faculty, and he alone knows what books and how many will be demanded...
Conkling & Cameron's Third Term (out of Office, by General Consent - dam Rascality...
...efforts to raise the standard of elocution at Harvard. The trouble arises not from their lack of effort, but from the impossibility for two men to perform the work which is put upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very early in the term are even deprived of the benefit of fifteen minutes' instruction a week. Of course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with the best master, but we cannot see that the section system would be an improvement, as instruction to a section...