Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From this and subsequent records, it seems that at this time, and for many years after, the students celebrated their graduation by a grand symposium, passing the greater part of the day in the Yard, scattered in groups under the trees, enjoying the last hours of college life by drinking punch, smoking, and talking over the events of their college days...
...seems that at that time it had not received the distinctive name of Class-Day...
...know what there is really interesting about this kind of information, but as all our exchanges are full of it, we quote the latest on the subject from the Tyro, for the benefit of curious readers: "It appears that at Vassar College there is one day in the week called "Onion Day,' on which all the ladies indulge in raw onions, as a health promoter. It requires upwards of fifteen bushels of this high-toned esculent to go around...
...open the question of compulsory attendance at church, which undergraduates have some very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism upon their weekly sermons. Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have...
...Pierian played better than we have ever heard them, their playing of the allegro from the Symphony being particularly good, showing faithful practice and intelligent conducting. Their spirited rendering of the "Hoch Konig Johann" march obtained an encore. This march was a great favorite last Class - Day...