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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many University functions that have had interesting developments beginning with the founding of the College, Commencement Day stands well among the first. In the olden times that day was celebrated as a public holiday on which the Governor came in state from Boston and the people for miles around thronged in as to a country fair. Drunkenness was common, and as early as 1693 there were symptoms that Commencement Day was becoming a period of disturbing festivity. Accordingly in that year the Corporation voted certain restrictions and their action, coupled with the activity of President Quincy at the beginning...
...clock in the evening comes the most attractive session of the day, namely, the life work address on Round Top, a beautiful hill overlooking the Connecticut river. After this each college has its own delegation meeting to discuss the problems of its own institution. This is often done around a camp fire...
...baseball team struck a disastrous slump, losing four out of five contests, one of them to the Yale freshmen, thus spoiling what was expected to be one of the best of first year records. The Freshmen played brilliant ball at the start of the season, several men batting around the 400 mark, while the fielding and pitching were excellent...
...that inning with two men down and three on bases the Harvard 1918 aggregation went completely to pieces making four errors and allowing four Yale men to cross the plate. Although Garfield, of the Yale 1918 team, gave nine bases on balls the Freshmen were able to get around the bases but three times...
...victory is won we look for the hymns of praise and the joy of the conquerors, but Euripides sees only the misery of the vanquished. For him the living drama lay in the tears of the conquered women and it is from them that he has named his play. Around them he has built up the action of the piece, setting forth the personalities of four heroic women: Hecuba, queen of Troy; Cassandra, her frenzied daughter; Andromache, wife of Hector; and lastly, the false Helen. Amidi the droning chants of the woeful choruses we see the suffering of these four...