Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Traveller, S. T. 1860 X. all visited the college within a month of one another. It seems that the invincible Daniel has been a great traveller since 1864, without having succeeded in getting beyond Cambridge. Succeeding Daniel comes W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. U. S. Army, 1866. Wendell Phillips, fresh from his anti-slavery work, writes his name with the same boldness as he was wont to speak...
...spite of this fact the usual strife for the possession of the flag between the "sophs" and "fresh" was repeated this year. On the day appointed innumerable " '86" flags were seen proudly flaunting in the New Haven breeze. When these were torn down, the freshmen effected the extraordinary feat of hoisting one on the tiptop of the flag pole on the Insurance building, directly over the weather signal. "There it hung," says the account of the affair, "limp and soaked by the rain, while on the sidewalk opposite gathered crowds of students alternately watching the flag and 'giving each other...
...cutters will clear the snow from Fresh Pond as soon as fair weather returns, so that there will probably be good skating there in a few days...
...Butler's message the Chicago News says : "If some graduate fresh from Harvard had been elected instead of Gen. Butler the young collegian would have carefully consulted with all his uncles and his cousins and his aunts as to what it was safe for him to say. Gen. Butler labors under no such embarrassment. He has given us the youngest, sappiest, freshest, greenest message this country has read for many a day." "He gives Harvard students a sly kick, which they will probably find occasion to return with interest," says the N. Y. Herald...
...been suggested that if favorable weather returns a skating match for different distances be arranged, to be held on Fresh Pond or some other convenient locality, so that Harvard's runners and others may have an opportunity to test their speed on ice and to establish a college record. The Athletic Association might consider the plan, and, if deemed advisable, offer prizes for the winners...