Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Livingood; Vice-President, John Porter; Orator, S. R. Johnson; Poet, C. A. Dickinson; Toast-Master, W. N. Frew; Odist, E. E. Parker; Committee of Arrangements, J. G. Gospil, W. H. Moody, A. H. Dellicker. The Toast-Master, Mr. Frew of Yale, was particularly happy, and the whole affair passed off in the most satisfactory manner...
...four months ago, one of our professors, William E. Byerly, a graduate of Harvard, a gentleman who has always manifested great interest in physical culture, determined to make the Gymnasium, which had so often been planned, a tangible reality; he interested several of the students with him in the affair, an association was formed, subscription papers sent out, Mr. Cornell gave a beautiful site overlooking the lake and surrounding country for many miles, and after determined and systematic work the undertaking may now be called, we are glad to say, an entire success. Thirteen hundred dollars have been subscribed...
...convention. Harvard would not necessarily have been bound to enter into the matches if her demands were entirely disregarded, and if our rules are best the other colleges will probably agree to them at last. But this result cannot be brought about if we keep out of the affair entirely...
...Williams College two Sophomores engaged in a little hazing, and were suspended. The class escorted them to the depot, and they also were suspended. The upshot of the affair was that all returned submissively to their college duties...
...whole affair was a fitting conclusion to a most successful society year...