Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Bryce, of Oxford, Eng., in his recent work on the American Commonwealth," devotes a chapter to American universities and colleges. "Diligence, he says, is the tradition of the American college, especially of those which are remote from the influences of large cities. Even the greater universities, as Harvard, Yale and Columbia, have never been primarily places for spending three or four years pleasantly, and incidentally places of instruction, as was the case with Oxford and Cambridge during the last century. Every student at an American college goes to college with the fixed idea of learning something...
Charles H. Sherrill, the Yale sprinter, is now lying dangerously ill at his home in Washington, and his attending physicians say that even should he recover he will never be able to run again...
...danger of contamination which our worthy Board of Overseers so recently deplored. Personally the men who play upon these professional teams are, as a rule, respectable, honest men who simply take this means of earning their livelihood. They do not dare to play in an underhanded fashion even if they are inclined so to do, for fear of losing their positions. Our nine cannot suffer by contact with these men and there is no doubt but that they will greatly improve their playing by a few games with professionals. On the whole the college has cause to congratulate itself...
...concert in the Central Music Hall, Saturday evening, was in some respects even more successful than its predecessors. The affair had almost the nature of a reception. Everybody was in full dress. All were ready to applaud whenever provocation offered. In spite of the fact that the clubs had been travelling steadily for a week, the pieces were given with greater snap, if with less care, than in New York. Encores were demanded, particularly of the banjo men, until the programme was nearly doubled. The Glee Club was assisted by Honore, '88, president of the club last year, who sang...
...Hemenway gymnasium, the vice has rapidly diminished. At present, Professor Shaler, whose acquaintance extends to perhaps half the students in the university, does not know of a single one who can be called a drunkard. The use of tobacco he also finds to have largely diminished, and even the use of tea and coffee is much less than formerly...