Word: first
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...classmen had been served from a huge bowl by trembling Freshmen, their fags, dragged from warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows of obnoxious tutors...
...served up on the annual cruise of the other. He might have been (though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd of Freshmen on the Delta on one of the first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through...
Among other things, he mentioned that he was the first occupant of my room (the number is purposely suppressed), and while he was telling with great pride of once stealing a fat turkey, the glory of Cambridge poultry-yards, and roasting it in the very fireplace by which we were sitting, I had fully made up my mind to break my long silence and ask him if he knew anything about Eliot's Indian College or Harvard's only Indian graduate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck Indus, when the door suddenly opened, and, on looking around, I discovered that it was broad daylight...
...first number of the Magenta the announcement was made that the paper would be sent to the rooms of those subscribers who desired it. Finding that such persons are very few in number, and various other causes arising for the impracticability of the plan, we now inform our readers that the Magenta can hereafter only be obtained, in Cambridge, at Richardson...
...different stores of Cambridge supply the student with almost every minor necessary of his life, but in one point they are deficient: we want in Harvard Square or thereabouts a first-class, clean barber-shop, with experienced workmen. That such an establishment would yield satisfactory profit to the owner there can be no doubt, while to us it would be a long-needed convenience...