Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...torchlight uniform of the junior class is to consist of blue and white striped "swallow tailed" coats, with '86 on the back, in large letters; trousers of the same material; and black "stove pipes...
...Technology expects to have a regiment of over 400 men in line in the torchlight procession. They will wear the same uniform which proved so effective four years ago. It will consist of mortarboards and academically gowns with the class number on the breast; the colors being cardinal and gray, the Tech colors...
...Jones' announcement that he will undertake an advanced course in elocution is of interest to a considerable number of upper-class men, especially those who entered the Boylston prize speaking last spring. The work of the class is to consist of readings from Shakespeare once a week, (Those who remember the character interpretation of Macbeth in Eng. 9 last year, will appreciate this,) and of public declamations fortnightly. This latter plan of frequent public declamations is an experiment at Harvard, but it has been tried with marked success by at least one other college, and bids fair to yield practical...
...Yale class day programmes consist of pieces of cardboard deftly fastened together by a piece of blue ribbon, tied in a bow on the front. On the center of the front gage in very tasty and attractive form are the words "Yale '84," and below the words "Class Day," followed by the date. Inside are the programmes for both the morning and afternoon exercises, with the place and time at which they are held...
...study they make up in enthusiasm what they lack in material and numbers, and the result is only too evident to all. In our large colleges where every class exceeds two hundred the men are too many in numbers to become acquainted, they form themselves in little groups which consist of men who have come from the same school or state, and instead of one great circle alive with interest in all matters pertaining to the college, we have a number of small cliques who think and act independently of each other. One, or possibly two of these small bodies...