Word: gave
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...President gave the Seniors a reception, November...
Seated in a corner of a familiar room, I soon became unconscious of the presence of noisy Freshmen and noisier Sophomores, as I gave myself up to the delights of a tete-a-tete with a tall glass of foamy beer; and, thinking myself back to many social evenings spent in the same hospitable apartment, and not unmindful of my present solitary condition, I fell into one of those trains of reflection that not unnaturally come to a white-haired Senior...
...Brown is in a state of excitement. On Monday and Tuesday there were cane rushes between the Sophomores and Freshmen. President Robinson broke up the second rush and expelled six Sophomores, but refused to suspend the class, as he was requested to do. He also gave warning that any Freshman appearing with a cane or any imitation thereof would be expelled. Expulsion was threatened the Sophomores who should trouble the Freshmen...
...last issue we gave the vote of the Faculty fixing the percentage required of Seniors. We have since learned from the Registrar that although the vote was passed as we stated it, the Faculty intend to consider it again before it actually goes into operation. It seems that new measures affecting undergraduates are not considered in active operation until they have been posted on the bulletin-board; therefore, although this vote was passed nearly six months ago, it has not yet gone into effect. The question of substituting it for the present regulation, requiring merely an average of fifty...
...great effort had been made by the managers of the [Philadelphia] regatta to induce other American colleges to enter; but Harvard was so discouraged by the defeat Yale gave her at Springfield that her boating enthusiasm is entirely gone," etc. - New York Paper...