Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHEN you were a Freshman, did you make a fool of yourself?" asked a hopeful young friend who feels sure of getting into college, this his fourth time; this was in the new Gymnasium on Class Day. "Some five thousand times," I replied impressively, rushing off to Miss -- of Albany (Albany's population is, surely, chiefly pretty young ladies). The young wretch, after gorging himself with all the salads, rushed at me as I returned pensively from the Alban charms with the comprehensive interrogation, "How?" But I can't spend from now even until after the bed-hour of Beck...
...soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever in the sea of lost degrees on Commencement Day. Now, if I were you, I should not, on the whole, get dropped; I admit it is rather "swell," and gives people the impression that you have come to college only because it is the proper thing, and not to learn anything or prepare yourself for such a vulgar occupation as earning...
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...
Fair Harvard on her Class Day did adorn...
...Class of '79 are to be congratulated on the great success of their Class Day. The loveliness of the day, the excellence of the literary exercises, the ability of the committee, and the energy with which they carried out their arrangements, all contributed to make the day as pleasant a Class Day as that which has fallen to the lot of any class within the memory of Harvard men; and though other classes may have been as much favored in some respects, it is certain that none have ever attracted such a large and brilliant company as that which gathered...