Word: class-day
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...senior class of Dartmouth are having a great deal of trouble over the election of class-day officers. The minority, numbering 20 men, have adopted the measure of refusing to pay the regular graduating class...
...class officers shall be elected in the following order: Secretary, first marshal, second marshal, third marshal, orator, poet, odist, ivy crator, chorister, class-day committee, class committee...
...account of the weather, the Harvard-Columbia race, which was to have been rowed the day before Class-Day, took place June 27th. The Columbia crew was practically the same that won in '86, and one could see in watching them at practice that they got a great deal of speed out of their boat. Harvard, on the other hand, had an almost entirely new crew, and there were some fears that lack of experience might prove a serious handicap. The eight were powerful men, however, and it was generally supposed that the race would be very close...
...deep affliction which the friends of his classmate were under asked that the class take action in the matter, and that some suitable expression of sympathy be made. By vote the president was empowered to appoint a committee of three, who should draw up a series of resolutions expressing the feeling of the class. Mr. Jackson. Mr. Gray and Mr. Brooks were appointed. The matter of wearing gowns at class day in place of the customary dress suits was brought up. Mr. Endicott, speaking of the class-day committee, said that the plan was not feasible, both because it would...
...always courteously yielded up their rooms to seniors on class-day, thus showing due consideration for the feelings of the senior on this, perhaps the most trying day of his life. But now certain men refuse to follow this custom, simply because they wish selfishly to have the use of their own rooms on that day, when nearly every senior is a host and hundreds of their guests demand accommodation. Such action is intensely mean and thoroughly detestable. We trust that it is simply thoughtlessness that has caused these under-class men to refuse. With the case thus put before...