Word: gallant
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...sing the old college songs with all the vigor of their Harvard brothers and "cousins." Then, too, there are the societies. The new student who proves herself worthy of the honor is urged to join the S. D., or the Lasellia Club. The former is very, very secret. The gallant visitor, if his hostess chance to belong to the S. D., of course interprets the letters as the initials for "Seraphic Daisies," but if the hostess be one of the Lasellia Club, he then wrinkles his brow and suggests, "Slighted Damsels...
...Shaw, and William F. Bartlett are names well known to every student of the civil war. There are many others of scarcely less renown. Many of these brave sons of Harvard never returned to their homes in the North. Memorial Hall is a lasting testimony to the patriotism and gallant death of one hundred and thirty-five. It is indeed impressive, at every Commencement to note the vacant places in the war classes. The members who come back here, year after year to renew their old class relations can tell of class mates who would have been prominent...
...year, harder, perhaps, than in any former year. The chances against them have been difficult to overcome, but no one will deny that they have struggled manfully, although unsuccessful, to overcome them. The more important the game, the better the team plays. We have only to think of the gallant fight made in the Princeton game, to assure us that every man on the team will play his very best in the struggle to-morrow against Yale. Now to show its appreciation of their efforts, the college should go down in a body to New Haven and encourage...
...white plume. At the South End we got stuck in the mud and had not our eyes at this instance caught sight of an orange and black '87 banner flying before us in the hands of some young lady admirers, there is no doubt that many a gallant warrior would have fallen behind in the hands of Pharisees and Mugwumps to be brought before that terrible tribunal the "Executive Committee of the Committee of One Hundred...
...remained even and the excitement among the spectators was intense. Then slowly by but surely Yale began to draw ahead so that when the first mile flag was passed they had a lead of somewhat less then a length. But already Harvard was pushing forward and Perkins and his gallant crew steadily forced the bow of their shell forward so fast that at a mile and a half from the start they were ahead and still gaining. It was then the turn of the Harvard supporters to give vent to their enthusiasm, which they did in a series for frantic...