Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomores and Freshmen under the windows of the New Haven House, and was viewed with interest by the "ladies" of that hostelry. The college authorities inconsiderately interfered, but many more contests took place during the eventful day, and now several Sophomores are waiting, in fear and trembling, for the edict which will banish them for a time from the grateful shade of the New Haven elms...
...members, who differed almost as much as undergraduates. He exhorted us to try and remember, when we were startled by some unexpected decree which it seemed impossible for sane men to pass, - to try and remember whether the lights burned long in University on the night when that awful edict went forth, and to infer, if it appeared that the midnight oil had been consumed, that a decision had not been reached without some consideration, and that a minority had made themselves heard upon the occasion...