Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ticknor Carter, president; Daniel Fletcher Webster, vice-pres.; James A. Dorr, secretary; Francis (now professor) Bowen, treasurer. There was also an executive-committee which appointed a lecturer and one disputant for each side of the question for debate at each meeting. The society at one time "hired the old court house from the selectmen" for their meetings and voted to "ask the faculty to pay, as usual, half the cost of heating and lighting the same." At a later time, the faculty, at the joint request of the Institute of 1770 and the Union, repaired University 3 for their...
After three o'clock it is almost impossible to secure a tennis court...
...Harvard was founded by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and first endowed by an educated son of pious London tradespeople. When I had read these Harvard wills I asked myself how closely the college is bound - after 250 years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers...
...when nearly a quarter of a millenium ago the first class of Harvard graduated and took their leave in a "sober and God-fearing fashion." Those were the strong and sturdy days when Fair Harvard was known as "Charles H's wooden college." when at commencement "Ye General Court of ye Massachusetts Colony did sit down at meat with ye lads to encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled in a maze of "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples," paid by the people for the support of learning. Those were the halcyon days when the alma mater...
...class day has become an institution of equal importance with the stately and scholastic day of gowns,- commencement. The General Court no longer feast beneath the classic shades, they have given place to their fair daughters. Nor is it upon the "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples" that the daughters feast. The "sober and God-fearing fashion" has passed into a round of jollity that shames the sober bachelor graduates who wander about aimlessly seeking they know not what, and territies papa and mamma in their watch-towers of observation with its desperate flirtation...