Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mandates which from time to time have been issued by the faculty have done little, except to arouse opposition, and to excite in the more turbulent students a desire to circumvent the issuers of these prohibitory proclamations. As a result, bon-fires have been kindled in dangerous places in the yard, cannon-crackers have been placed even under the proctors' windows, and the disturbance has been continued until almost morning. Should these manifestos be repealed and the entire control of celebrations be given into the hands of the students, as the committee proposes, there would be an end, we think...
...first on the fumble of his hit by Blossom, stole second, but became the victim of a double-play when Smith hit to Toler, who touched first, and fielded to third. Wiestling failed to find the ball. In Princeton's half of the inning, nothing of note occurred except the prompt retirement of the first three men at bat. Score 4 to 3 in favor of the home team...
From various entries in the journal we learn that "Harvard indifference" is not of recent growth. May 23rd, 1836, "all the officers except the junior secretary being absent, a committee was appointed to inquire the reason, and a long discussion took place on the infelicitous state of the society." At the next meeting a committee appointed "to concert measures to raise the character of the society and excite more interest in the exercises," recommended that "in order to secure the attendance of a fixed number of members so necessary for the improvement at which we aim, a new list...
...freshman nine suecceded in defeating the Boston High School nine, yesterday afternoon, by a score of 9 to to 6. The freshmen played a miserable game, making very many costly and inexcusable errors. The batting was very weak, except in the last two innings, when good batting, assisted by errors gave the freshmen the game. The High School nine played, on the whole, a good game, and led by several runs until the seventh inning...
...press, on the "Study of Political Economy," by Prof. Laughlin. The articles recently published in the Atlantic and in the Popular Science Monthly on the various aspects of economic study by this same writer, have done much to clear up a subject about which so little is known, except by those who have pursued it. The book is just what is needed, and we feel certain that it will be received with great favor by the students...