Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were all thoroughly enjoyed. In every way the observance of the Class Day of '79 was successful. It was a fitting close for a glorious college career. A class could desire no more appropriate day for the turning-point of their lives, - for the day on which they look back over the four years of the college course, live over again its joys and its triumphs, and bid farewell to its endeared scenes...
...chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty of Youth," was too perfect a production for us to dare to mar it by quotations. The author breathed forth her inspiration with all the calm resignation of some bereaved, unappreciated, neglected world-wanderer, who looked back with tears in her eyes to the days of her youth. Many times her words were scarcely audible through the sobs of her listeners, and as she repeated these last lines, there was literally a shriek of sympathy...
...fool. If you do well, say still less, or you will be considered a conceited grind. If you decide to go into athletics, take rowing, for you know it has become popular, and base-ball seems to have been artificially kept alive by graduates of some years back. Don't, at all events, go to the Gymnasium, unless the new one becomes fashionable; some men have lost the First Eight, Nine, or Ten in that way. And next year send in a contribution, - barring verses on summer, roughs on the Woman's College, and complaints about Memorial Hall...
...former years, - not to mention the champion single-sculler and several prominent athletes, - this class cannot depart without leaving a large vacancy behind it. Now, however, while the College is still fresh with the memory of these achievements, is the time to look forward, as well as to look back, and to consider how we may equal, if not surpass, the records that '79 has written. The importance of having good captains cannot be overestimated, and it would be well if those who are to fill the responsible positions next year carefully avail themselves of the experience of those...
...Sophomores), to the gentleman who behaved unkindly to the Merchant of Venice (S-y-k the B-r-ir; he is a Wandering Jew, and now lives in Wadsworth). If he attempts to throw any difficulties in your way, mere technicalities, two courses are open to you. Either step back, bare your manly breast, and say, in your very best manner...