Word: useful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Students who use the Track frequently will find it to their advantage to wear rubber-soled slippers, and to reverse, statedly, the order of running...
...seem wholly needless to call attention to the fact that all are interested in the use of the bulletin boards, and that it is therefore undoubtedly desirable that notices should be allowed to remain where they can be easily read, so long as they are valid; but notices of importance have repeatedly been covered, of late, before the date of the occasion for which they were posted, by other notices of subsequent date. This obviously should not be. Nor, on the other hand, should notices be allowed to remain on the boards after losing validity, as is still often done...
...desire to call attention again to the general practice of scratching matches on the black-walnut finish in the vestibule of Memorial Hall. Were the injury only temporary, a sense of propriety ought to suggest to the student that the use he is making of the building is one far different from that intended by the donors; but when one considers that the marks cannot be effaced, it then becomes a crime thus to disfigure the building. We hope, therefore, that there will be no occasion to refer again to the subject...
After much deliberation, three adjectives have been chosen for use with the names of instructors. These three are "genial" (or "kindly"), "thorough," and "popular." The Editors believe that at least one of these will be applicable whenever a professor is spoken...
...called hot-house scholar should not at once become extinct at Harvard. There is no end to the good of this nature which the Gymnasium may do, and it only remains for the University to show its appreciation of Mr. Hemenway's gift by making the proper use of it at once...