Word: flag
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game, and our pitcher has been disabled all the time. However, we won't offer any apologies. We were fairly out-played. We did the best we could, but it was not good enough; Harvard did better. It is hard for men who have seen Yale's flag flying from the topmost notch ever since they have been in college, to realize that they must see it dust and mud stained for the year to come. Let it not be said of us that we who have known prosperity so long and intimately, do not know how to bear defeat...
...their selections: A. Z. Bowen, The Embarkation of the Pilgrims.- Webster; J. L. Hurst, The Moor's Revenge.- Mickiewicz; J. M. Goodale. Forefather's Day.- G. W. Curtis; G. Santayana, The Story of the Trojan Horse.- Virgil; R. F. Rogers. William Lloyd Garrison.- Phillips; H. B. Hutchins, Under the Flag.- Phillips; O. B. Roberts, Extract from Les Miserables.- Victor Hugo...
...Freshmen of the Institute of Technology tried to raise a flag bearing the figures '88, but their attempt-was defeated by the janitor of the Institute building...
...hundreds who, upon less important occasions, sedately take their seats in the dress circles of the stalls. The medicals had scaled the heights for the purpose of making a demonstration, and upon Miss Ward's appearance they unrolled their banners of homage, in the shape of the black velvet flag with skull and crossbones of the "meds.," the crimson and gold ensign of the embryo "surveyors and engineers" and a long streamer with "Au Revoir" inscribed upon it. They further, in response to some who, on a previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung out two gigantic prescriptions...
...born before ever Washington was, there is no occasion for Harvard's recognizing the great general's birthday. It is certainly a fact that Harvard doesn't recognize it in any outward way, Harvard students pass the day with their usual "Harvard Indifference" from all outside appearances. The flag on the Cambridge liberty pole and a few remarks in the newspapers are all that remind them that the day is a legal holiday. One year we did have some celebrations. In '83 there was a display in the yard of several patent fire escapes. whereby several ankles were sprained...