Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...write this in behalf of my younger brother, Rob, who will enter with the class of '97. He must have a room in the yard, even if I have to endow the University with a new dormitory...
...here or will be plucked in the examinations, should have an equal chance at the limited number of rooms available, with fellows who have been here two and three years, have their friends and interests centred here, who will have, perhaps, only one other chance? Is it fair, even, that the man of one year's standing in the college should stand on equal ground with the veterans of many examinations...
...venerable president to attend a reception at his residence. Excitement ensues; wardrobes are ransacked and set in order; lessons are hastily read, or pushed aside; visions of bright forms and thoughts of conquest flit through the undergraduate mind; upper-classmen are quizzed as to the probabilities of the evening, social, and even gastronomical. At the appointed time, a long train of students file into the president's library, and are warmly received by that gentleman, his wife, various members of the faculty, and a large corps of ladies from the homes of professors and from the families of ancient lineage...
FEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING.To make an even number of contestants so as to prevent any one having the advantage of a bye, one bout of the feather - weight sparring was decided Saturday. A. C. Coolidge, '87, and E. W. Grew, '89. were drawn for this meeting. The first round opened smartly, although more than half of the blows fell short and those that did reach the mark had little strength in them. Grew did not seem to have command of the situation and ducked in a very tempting manner. Coolidge took advantage of this and landed several upper-cuts, without, however...
...third round opened at a tremendous temperature. Again Grew got in some good right-handers, and forced the fighting. Throughout the three rounds the honors had been fairly even, but Grew sparred in much better form than Coolidge and he was consequently awarded the bout. The entries in the event for next Saturday will be Clement, '88, L. S.; Thayer, '88; Grew, '89, and Dame...