Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course the first thing that you must keep constantly before you is popularity. Without it a fellow of your lineage and social aspirations would be lost at Harvard. Coming as you will from Exeter next autumn, you will find it wisest to stick close by the Exeter men until they have successfully elected officers at the Freshman meeting. Then, if you find they are not likely to be influential any longer, leave them and go over to the Boston set. You may find them exclusive, but never mind. The north pole can never be reached without passing icebergs...
...only minding the helm. A week's sailing in this wise, with no stint in the beverages named above, will infallibly bring you into the "second ten," and as then you will be a made man, and I only intended to give you advice for Freshman year, I will close for the present...
...actual result is well known. Though the weather was perfect; though the arrangements were unexceptionable; though the crews were so evenly matched that every one predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from...
ADMISSION conditions in Modern and Physical Geography, Physical Science, English Composition, French, and German may be made up at special examinations to be held at the close of the Christmas recess...
...latter fact being especially noticeable in the game. The time set for beginning was 2.30; and, a little later than that, notwithstanding a pouring rain, play was called, Yale winning the toss, and taking the wind. Kent kicked off for Harvard, and for a minute or two we kept close to Yale's goal. But the ball was soon returned, and gradually moved towards Harvard's 25 yd. line, within which it remained most of the time. Once, after some sharp playing by our men, and a fumble by Yale's halfbacks, we had a down close to our opponents...