Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...upon by the representatives of another faction as an attempt at dictation, and they refused to enter into any such understanding, or, as long as that condition was adhered to, to have anything to do with the proposed arrangement. Here the matter rests. All attempts to secure a Class Day have been finally abandoned, and a proposition is now under consideration, by which it is hoped the class organization alone may be effected. This proposal is to elect simply a class committee of three and a class secretary, giving one of the four officers to each of the four factions...
...Captain of the Nine has succeeded in arranging games with Yale and Princeton. The first game with Yale will be played at New Haven, May 26; the second in Cambridge, on the afternoon of Class Day, June 22; and the third, if a third should be necessary, either the day before, or, as is more likely, the day after the regatta. The first Princeton game will be played at Princeton, May 19; the second in Cambridge, June 8; no arrangements in regard to a third game have, as yet, been made. The Foot-ball Team have not been so fortunate...
...darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles Sumner's burial only so long as his corpse was passing the very College precincts, and last Wednesday, when the funeral services of Governor Washburn were being performed in the Chapel no official notice was taken of it by the College, and students - your correspondent among others - were compelled to attend recitations while the bells...
...other day, as I was walking up one of the aisles of Memorial Hall at the dinner hour, and trying to get some idea of our bill-o'-fare from the dishes on the tables right and left, I caught snatches of topics that seemed appropriate for any place but the dinner-table. At one table there was going on an excited discussion over the solution of oblique triangles, at another I heard a man quoting Whately verbatim, and before I reached my seat unpleasant associations connected with sulphuretted hydrogen and cyanide of potassium were suggested by an embryo chemist...
...most interesting events of the day was the Indian club swinging, for which there were two entries: Messrs. Shillito, '79, and Howe, '80. Mr. Shillito led off, and performed a number of figures in unusually fine style, calling forth frequent applause from the audience. Mr. Howe did himself much credit, especially in some very difficult underarm passages, that were loudly applauded. Mr. Shillito, however, won the prize, his manner of swinging the clubs being the more graceful...