Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Towards the close of every year the academical department of Yale is in the habit of offering prizes, varying in value from $30 to $250 for excellence in essays in both English and the dead languages. This year $250 is offered for the best English essays; $100 for the man who pronounces an English oration in the best manner. For the best specimens of English composition five premiums of $12 each are offered...
...Harvard Canoe Club, which has been resurrected this year, is now in a condition which predicts a prosperous future. It was founded in 1884 but has never stood very high among the college athletic organizations. Last year it seemed nearly dead. There were five members in the graduating class, two in '89, and a few specials and Law and Medical School men. It began this year with a muster roll of three men and now that the number has increased to over thirty, many rooms are decorated with the crimson silk burgees bearing the gold circle and shield with...
...Reminiscences" abounds with anecdotes about men, now famous and many of them long since dead-men like Henry Ware, Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Ticknor, Felton, Fairfield and Pierce. The book, though made up of fragments as it is, will always be of value and interest to Harvard men. It pictures, as is pictured nowhere else, the different stages of life at our University during the last sixty years, breathing the kindly, gentle spirit of its author, who has always drawn out the good and won the love of all with whom he has come in contact...
Agan and again the Meds tried to gain the vantage point, but every time they were repelled. At last they had recourse to a stratagem. By a sudden flank movement they baffled the college men, and getting hold of the bowl they charged against the doors of the dead-room. A horrible sight greeted the college men, and they drew back with terror. But the repulsive grins of the "stiffs" were to the Meds only smiles of welcome from old friends. They closed the doors after them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window...
...second article, "An Argument for Cremation" is a very powerful and thrilling story though certainly not an attractive one. A man is found apparently dead by some jolly monks, and in spite of the fact that the body still retains its warmth, they bury it at the abbey. Some time later the monks and their merry Abbot are disturbed in their carousals by noises issuing from the grave, and they find that the slab bas fallen from its place and the grave is empty. Later in the evening when the orgy is over, the Abbot on entering his room, finds...