Word: broken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Advertiser has the following sensible editorial on the recent disturbance at Dartmouth: "The young Dartmouth men, probably sophomores, who have broken their teachers' windows and soiled the chapel seats reserved for the faculty, will do well to quit college immediately, or invoke a full pardon, as such outrages cannot remain undiscovered and unpunished. The resolution of the sophomores to stand together in such dirty matters is discreditable and childish. How can these young men justify their co-operation in cowardice and absurd defiance...
...that Yale would derive all the honor of such transactions, the students at Dartmouth determined to make an item also in the college press. We are informed that on Saturday evening one of the professors was "horned," (a custom which we hope is confined to Dartmouth), and windows were broken. On entering chapel Tuesday morning, the faculty found that their seats were nicely smeared with lard. As a result a number of sophomores were suspended. A class meeting passed resolutions in favor of supporting their class-mates. The faculty suspended all regular exercises on Thursday, and as they are determined...
...mortar-board and gown mania has again broken out. This time it is the freshman class at Cornell that is afflicted...
Messrs. H. I. Dillenback, H. U. '82, and G. W. Currier, are the authors of a very pretty song and dance entitled "My Blue-eyed Geraldine," just published by Blair & Lydon. Two other song and dance pieces in the same set - "When Once the Ice is Broken" and "The Water Queen" - are forthcoming from the same source...
...Very little interest seems to be taken by the college in the Yale race correspondence, but it is due to the fact that no one doubts the ultimate adjustment of the difficulties on an honorable basis. Should the challenge actually be declined by Harvard, the apparent apathy would be broken," says the Advertiser's Harvard correspondent...