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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Time has introduced modifications in some of these features, but, however changed, they still remain the only essential con-comitants of the parade. The custom of parading was started in 1868-the campaign of Grant and Seymour. The college, as in all subsequent processions, went with the Republicans. Unfortunately for the antiquarian, however, the record of this procession is very incomplete. The reporter for the college paper was seized with a mental prostration while marching, and was unable afterwards to give a good account either of himself or of the procession. Notes taken by him on the march were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torchlight Processions of the Past. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

...days ago the freshmen and sophomores of Columbia College negated in one of the old-time cane rushes which custom alone authorizes. For some years President Barnard has strongly objected to the continuance of this noble custom, and con sequentially an order was promulgated forbidding all rushes on the college grounds. Notwithstanding this definite order, the members of '88, on Wednesday last, appeared in the campus with a large came in their midst. No sooner were they sighted by one of the sophomores than all the members of that class within call made a rush for the daring freshies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sudden End of a Cane Rush. | 10/15/1884 | See Source »

...three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/20/1883 | See Source »

...three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/19/1883 | See Source »

...rest of fourteen minutes he finished the fourth and last quarter in 52 4-5sec. ; doing the whole distance in 3min. 31 4-5sec. The time from first start to finish was 44min. 31 2-5sec., whereas, when Westhall made his record, the entire hour was con sumed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/10/1883 | See Source »

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