Word: cat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Early on the morning of June 28 crowds from all parts of the country began to pour into New London. They came in yachts, ferry-boats, excursion steamers, wherries, cat-boats, and steam-launches; they came in railroad trains and carryalls; they came on foot and on horseback. Even the casual observer must have perceived that it was a great day for Connecticut and New London...
SINCE the cat-show in Boston and the congress of fair women in New York, it has been proposed to have an intercollegiate exhibition of Freshmen. The genus Freshman certainly presents many interesting varieties, and such a show, if properly managed, might be both moral and instructive. One morning the attendance was divided as follows: Faculty 3, Seniors 15, Juniors 12, Sophomores 3, Freshmen 8. The cry is for a total discontinuance of chapel exercises...
PROFESSOR PAINE'S recital in Boylston last evening drew a larger number than the hall could comfortably seat. The following pieces were played: Cat's Fugue, Scarlatti; French Suite, - Gavotte and Gigue, - Bach; Sonata in D'minor, Op. 31, Beethoven; Nocturne in E major, Op. 62, Chopin; Kreislereana, Op. 16, Schumann; Characteristic Piece, Funeral March, "Welcome," Paine...
...their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind some garden shrub, pounces upon a poor robin picking a worm from out the earth, so pounce they upon the unsuspecting student picking a crib from out his pocket. Then internally they chuckle to themselves: "Ha, ha! he, he! they thought to escape, but we're too sharp...
Come tripping foot-falls, soft as a cat...