Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...person who, in a recent letter, attempted to explain away a suggestion advocating the admitting of Freshmen to the Tree on Class Day next, is, to say the least, illogical in his arguments and narrow in his views. He talks of "pleasing the Freshmen at the expense of the other classes," in a tone which is arrogant and unfair...
...statement that the "enclosure is already overcrowded" is not a true one, for there was ample room last year for another class; and this year, the Class-Day Committee have succeeded in getting at least one hundred more seats by running them out over the sidewalk...
...this advocate for comfort to the Seniors and for politeness to the ladies is capped by his argument ending in an entirely different way from which he began; for, whereas he stoutly urges the exclusion of the Freshmen, he magnanimously adds that he is convinced that the Class-Day Committee would admit them, provided they sit quiet on the green next to Holden and do not join in a ring round the Tree...
...should say stolen. I presume that these students are in training for the position of bank-defaulters after graduation, and that they served as telegraph-boys before their entrance here, - they certainly must have had some Fagan to teach them the trade. I should recommend to the Class Day Committee to put placards on the trees, for the benefit of those who are unacquainted with the kleptomania of some of us, reading as follows: "Beware of student sneak thieves and pickpockets...
Sleeping by day, and waking by night...