Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...acorn, to make the picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide on the smooth crust of snow. The fight soon divided itself into two sections-the freshmen with the bowl man in their midst, striving to gain the gate on Thirty-fourth street, and thus put their man in safety, while the sophs were trying to tug the bowl after them...
...clipping is worthy of publication for its ludicrous statement: "While 3000 people witnessed the Wesleyan-Pennsylvania foot-ball game on Thanksgiving morning, in New York, only 1800 were at the Yale-Harvard game in the afternoon. It would seem that Gothamites prefer a good dinner to foot-ball.- Campus...
...fully as pleasant to rent rooms in boarding and private houses near the college. They think the increased price of, say $5 a week for an unfurnished room is pretty steep, and quite a number of them have signified their intention of giving up their rooms on the campus. They say they can procure any quantity of large and well-appointed rooms near the University for from $5 to $6 a week...
...grand rush for the freshman fence. The last public ceremony of a freshman's life is receiving the sophomore fence, each class has a fence orator and preceding the ceremony seniors form a line, four abreast and followed by the other classes in their order, they march around the campus and cheer each building. Then they march to Pres. Dwight's and receive a short address from him, then to ex-Pres. Porter's where the same ceremony occurs, then to ex-Pres. Woolsey's where they simply cheer. Then they return to the campus. The sophomore orator speaks first...
...another grasp on the fence. This goes on until the sophomores have reached a position along the fence so that the freshmen can go no farther. Rarely a freshman class go the whole length of the fence in spite of the sophomores. The two classes then proceed to the campus, the sophomores going to their fence and the freshmen disbanding...