Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wasington's birthday will be a gala day at Princeton. The Dramatic Association will initiate the ceremonies by the presentation of "Our Boys," the evening before. The Junior Cotillion will follow. The exercises on the following morning will consist of four orations, by representatives of the four classes, the Senior oration being a humorous and witty production. The college orchestra will furnish the music on this occasion. The winter sports will be held in the gym. in the afternoon, and in the evening a prize debate for the "class of '78 prize." The debate will be between four men, each...
...Glee and Banjo Clubs will take a short tour on Washington's birthday, and the early part of that week. They will visit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington en route. The Banjo Club, encouraged by its success during the holiday trip, has reorganized and will endeavor to make greater hits than ever...
...town of Roxbury, founded soon after Boston, did much work towards the close of the Seventeenth Century in starting new colonies, and among many was one, Woodstock, Connecticut, which on the seventh of last September celebrated its two hundredth birthday. The above is an historical sketch delivered on that day to the people, and traces the town's history to the present...
...with sincere pleasure that we read of the intended celebration of our younger sister, Columbia; and our pleasure is the most sincere because we ourselves have just been eating the birthday cake of our own beloved alma mater. Though adversity and prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking...
...significant remark was made by Dr. Brooks in his sermon on Sunday morning, - "And now it is the privilege of festival times like these . . . that the college feels anew its relation to the whole of things. . . . . On his birthday, when he stops his work to gather up his life, the man knows himself more than the individual; the whole humanity to which he belongs grows dear to him." The greatest benefit of the celebration just over is the lasting influence of its inspiration, in giving the students at once a clear conception of the real meaning of college work. There...