Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There should be no doubt manifested by '86 in regard to accepting immediately the challenge of the Harvard freshmen. Nothing will have more power to cement the old time friendship of the colleges, and help to make them forget the late difficulty, than these races from which no danger of a quarrel or misunderstanding can ever be apprehended. [Columbia Spectator...
...boys used to get together and have a good old sing - perhaps it might he called a "howl" - when every man felt it his duty and high privilege to take part in a jolly chorus. There is nothing that is so strong to unite men in the ties of friendship and good fellowship as a college song. It always used to be and ever ought to be a prominent feature of college life. - [Orient...
...cannot here discuss the subsequent events, which almost seem to have shattered the many ties of friendship which have hitherto bound us to "Fair Harvard." It had been the intention of Columbia to say nothing whatever in regard to the controversy through the press, and it was almost the unanimous opinion of the students that, owing to the well known fairness of Harvard students in general, the whole matter would be settled to the satisfaction of all parties, and that Columbia and Harvard would still continue on their former footing of friendliness. The endeavor, however, of the Harvard Boat Club...
...professors and tutors to the chapel, preceded by the band playing solemn music. The president began with a short prayer. He then read a chapter in the Bible; after this he prayed again; Cutler then delivered his poem. Then the singing club, accompanied by the band, performed Williams' Friendship. This was succeeded by a valedictory Latin oration by Jackson. We then formed and waited on the government, (i. e., the faculty,) to the president's, where we were very respectably treated with wine, etc. We then marched in procession to Jackson's room, where we drank punch...
Canon Fleming, preaching at Westminster Abbey Sunday evening, said: "There are now many objects of common interest which make America and England one in friendship and sympathy, that Longfellow's death will be as sincerely mourned here as it is in the United States...