Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class-day number will be ready at 10 A.M. to-day. On account of spreads copies to subscribers in all buildings in the college yard will not be delivered until early Saturday morning. Papers to other subscribers will be delivered Friday. Subscribers who room in the yard can get their copies at noon to-day at Sever's, by giving their name and the number of their rooms...
...account and criticism of the university crew will appear in to-morrow's CRIMSON...
Harper's Monthly is responsible for the follwing account of an old custom at Trinity College on class day, known as the "Presentation of the Lemon Squeezer." "This custom, it need hardly be said, is peculiar to Trinity, and, as the 'Lemon Squeezer' of class day is something not met with in every day life, a word of description is pertinent. It is a plain piece of mechanism, devoid of much ornamentation. It is revered and prized, not so much for its intrinsic value as for the memories which cluster around it, and are, upon auspicious occasions, squeezed...
...except that if the championship series is awarded to Yale with only one game to its credit, a dangerous precedent is established at once. Now Yale freshmen always have an independent way of acting with our freshmen that is truly original: if they fear a defeat on account of a weak team, they "crawl" as their freshman eleven did last fall, or their '87 nine did a year ago; if they have an unusually strong team, they win one game and then in a calm way refuse to play any more games because they have the series "cold," as they...
...Harvard and Yale. Good reports come from all the crews; but none seem to be in better condition than the 'Varsity Eight of Columbia. They are an especially fine lot of young fellows in appearance, and their friends will be grieviously disappointed if they do not give a good account of themselves in their contest against Harvard-so good, indeed, that Harvard will be left far behind. Their chances for victory are more than fair, as will be seen by an article in our local columns. They are the heaviest crew but one that Columbia has ever turned...