Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evening, as I was loitering about the entrance to the ball-room of one of the hotels at Saratoga, wishing that the thermometer would try the effect of a cold bath, I saw R., a college friend of mine and in the Senior class. He is a nice fellow, and good-looking; but, owing to the absence of those airy nothings usually indulged in by men of his age, his appearance is somewhat youthful...
Meanwhile, R.'s face was a study. At last a light broke upon him, he saw that she had mistaken his class, and resolved to carry on the joke, so replied with due solemnity...
...announcement that permission has been granted to the Senior class, by the Committee on Theatrical Entertainments, to give shortly in Boston a series of two or three theatricals will, no doubt, strike many with surprise. Yet such is the fact. The difficulty of obtaining such permission has been so great of late years, that entertainments of this kind are almost matters of the past. Yet the Committee have been pleased to consider favorably a petition sent in by some members of Seventy-Nine, and have given their assent, imposing very few conditions. These performances are to be given...
...adopted. Men used to hang back, waiting to see who their opponents were going to be, and would enter or not accordingly. But now they can have no such purpose, and they should either make up their minds by a fixed time or be shut out entirely. The Sophomore class made a very small show on the programme, and still worse in the field; entering only five men out of thirty, which certainly is not their proper proportion. We hope they will feel the College expects more from them, and we shall all look for them carefully in the next...
...introduced here, would excite much interest, and the entries would be large. A "Sack Race" would have its attractions, while a thrilling novelty would be a favorite race at Amherst, - at once humane, athletic, and amusing, - i. e. a "Greased Pig Race." A "barrel of cider to the class winning the most races" would also be an incentive to individual prowess, and would doubtless prove a strong card...