Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Procrastination never gets the early morn, as Lord Dundreary would have said. The torch-light prosession of undergraduates day is only nine days distant. This is a very short time in which to make all the preparations. One of the most important features, if carried out successfully, will be the costumes of the different classes. But this will never be accomplished unless men sign for their uniforms promptly. They can sign now as easily as two days before the 6th. They should do so in order to spare the committee extra trouble...
...undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Edward Everett...
...undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class, of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey, of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Everett...
...undergraduates. Any one who reads the college papers must be struck with the perennial exhortation not only to give, give, when the subscriptions are backward, but to journey in this, that or the other direction - 150 miles it may be - in order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement...
...tide and within two hours of high water. The course must be marked by a central line of buoys situated at each half mile point and either boat may be disqualified, if, at any point during the race it approach to within ten feet, or be distant more than a hundred feet from the central line. This is a most important rule, providing, as it does, that the two boats must always be twenty feet apart, and locating the fault beyond a doubt, if either crew fouls the other. A start is unfair, if, during the first ten strokes, either...