Word: closing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...close of a hot summer...
...hard, earnest work. Yale is enthusiastic under her new captain, and has voted to challenge us at once. Her crew, the same as last year, with one exception, are already in training, and there is no doubt that, do what we may, the race this year will be a close one. But if enough men will come forward we shall be able to select an unusually good crew. We, therefore, call upon the University to give our captain a hearty support, and hope to see a large number of contestants for seats in the University boat...
...Waterville, N. Y., took place. The various spreads and teas, the dancing at Memorial Hall, the illuminations, and the singing of the Glee Club in the evening were all thoroughly enjoyed. In every way the observance of the Class Day of '79 was successful. It was a fitting close for a glorious college career. A class could desire no more appropriate day for the turning-point of their lives, - for the day on which they look back over the four years of the college course, live over again its joys and its triumphs, and bid farewell to its endeared scenes...
Under the liberal shade, and close by the still, winding river...
FIVE Overseers are to be elected to-day for the term of six years, to supply the places of the Class which goes out of office after the close of this Commencement Day. One Overseer is to be elected for the term of two years, to supply the place of Alexander Agassiz, resigned. All the foregoing are to be voted for on one ballot, in Massachusetts Hall. The polls will be kept open from the hour of ten in the forenoon to the hour of four in the afternoon...