Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshwomen did not care to carry canes, but did insist upon wearing back hair, it was agreed that at 4 o'clock on Monday last the two classes should meet on the college campus, and that one freshwoman, to be chosen by her classmates, should appear with back hair in position. The sophomores were then to make a united effort to deprive the freshwoman of her back hair, and the other freshwomen were to defend her, and upon the issue of the struggle was to depend the right of the freshwomen to wear back hair during the rest...
...nearly half an hour the two classes struggled for the mastery. The campus was strewn with torn skirts and sowed thick with hairpins, and the faculty, hanging on the outskirts of the combatants, and weeping and wringing their hands, were powerless to restore order. Gradually the sophomores fought their way to the freshwoman who wore the back hair, and finally they triumphantly tore it from her head. At the same moment the freshwomen, inspired by a happy thought, simultaneously seized the quack hair of their opponents and fled to their rooms, each bearing her trophy...
...over him; it was true the faculty sent a representative to the convention of the faculties, and it was thought to be in favor of the resolutions, yet it was fair enough to state openly that it had little right to assume much control over affairs outside of the campus and which did not seriously interfere with college duties. Cornell's representative said the faculty would ascertain the feeling of the students before taking action; the students were strongly opposed to them. The young gentlemen from the College of the City of New York said that their college...
...shell by over 1300 majority. After several three times three's had been given, the crew lowered the shell from its position above the stage, and carried it triumphantly out of the hall. The crowd then bore it up Chapel street on their shoulders, and once around the campus, singing and cheering. The boat was then placed in the gymnasium and the crowd dispersed. [Yale News...
...bowl had meanwhile gone on. The freshmen raised the bowl over the Thirty-fourth street fire-plug to break it. The fire-plug broke under the heavy blows from the bowl. Finally, tired and soaked, the freshmen claimed the bowl by possession, and triumphantly carried it across the campus into the building...