Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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NEVER before were brilliancy, beauty, and culture so fully represented on the ball-field as they were by the audience which graced the benches of Holmes Field on Class Day afternoon; and never before had such a gathering greater cause for rejoicing in the success of their favorites than did the numberless friends of Harvard on that victorious day. They saw a record of severe defeat wiped out by corresponding triumph, yes, more than corresponding. Five to Zero was overwhelmed, submerged, buried deep beyond the possibility of resurrection, while Ten to One was written out in letters of light equally...
...day was a glorious one, a lively breeze being the only objectionable feature. The Nines were promptly on the field, each presenting its full strength, and all showing by their preliminary practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work...
Chief Marshal for Commencement Day...
...Minnesota, in which we learn that Buffalo is "a place of great commercial interest and a great entrepot for the grain of the West"; an abstract of the Eastern Question; and an article on "Reading and Observation"; the whole capped off by a very short editorial (on Class-Day Parts) and a few items. A college paper is meant for the college in which it is published, and its literary department, even if interesting, should not be allowed to encroach on the more important department of local news...
THOSE persons who are fond of tracing manners and customs back into the remote past will rejoice in the material afforded them by Mr. Capes's little book entitled "University Life in Ancient Athens," in which it is shown that many of the student customs of to-day were in vogue at east fifteen hundred years...