Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the heavy gale on Monday night, a part of the roof of the library was carried away...
During the last twenty years many old customs have been done away with at Yale as well as at Harvard. These charges are especially noticeable in the class-day exercises of the two colleges. In former days, the graduating class took breakfast with the President, and in the afternoon came the memorable dance upon the green. At Yale usages have been abandoned even more than at Cambridge. One of the best known ceremonies that no longer occupies a part of the presentation week is the Wooden Spoon Ceremony. This custom had its origin at one of the colleges at Cambridge...
...down as the tides flow off of the marshes and piles itself up in the river. There are two large coal schooners that were caught by the ice at Richardson and Bacon's wharf, and it is probable that tugs will soon break their way up and tow them away. This will start the ice, and the tide, aided by the sun, which is now so high as to be quite effective on the salt ice, will soon clear the river. The crews will probably be out by the twentieth at the latest...
...address of last night, said that the essential part of the new poetry was its spirit, not its metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes of the people...
COMMITTEE.H. U. F. B. A.- The cups awarded to the '89 foot-ball team are at Leavitt and Pierce's, and may be taken away after 12 m. Wednesday...