Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bowdoin. There was considerable enthusiasm over the arrangements for the spring meeting. It was decided to offer a cup and medals as prizes, and to hold the first field meeting at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Friday, May 27, at 1.30 o'clock. J. T. Cunningham, Dartmouth '87, was elected grand marshal. The list of events for competition decided on are as follows: Throwing base-ball, two-mile run, 100-yard dash, standing high jump, putting shot, mile run, throwing the 16-pound hammer, 220-yard dash, running high jump, standing bar-vault, half-mile run, 2-mile bicycle race, pole...
...classes are engaged in the exercises around the tree the chimes of Christ church shall play "Fair Harvard." During the silence which follows the cheering, the sound of the chimes lends a significance to the hour which is highly impressive. One who has heard the strains of the grand old ode thus rendered, and has experienced the deep impression which is made upon all, cannot but wish that the custom should be made a university institution and thus give to each class-day an added significance as unique among collegiate graduating customs. We speak thus publicly that due attention...
...large dining-room of the Hotel Brunswick, in New York, was gaily decorated with blue bunting on Saturday night, the occasion being the grand banquet tendered to Captain Robert J. Cook of the class of '76, by the graduates of Yale in recognition of his extraordinary services in behalf of the University crew. Captain Cook rowed on the University Crew in 1872, which was defeated. He then came to the conclusion that he could obtain some good points from the English University crews and accordingly paid a visit to Oxford and Cambridge in '73, with a view to learning their...
Another great event "was the annual cruise of the navy on some vessel chartered for the occasion, and freighted well with 'creature comforts.' The navy would then sail out into Massachusetts Bay, and would usually have a grand chowder somewhere - generally on the shore of Cape Cod. This cruise lasted three days. On returning, they landed at one of the Boston wharves, and proceeded to Cambridge in wagons, usually in a very merry mood. The Admiral then selected his successor, and the navy disbanded for the year...
...poor fellow out and disclosing his deficiencies. I looked to you to keep these fralities a secret from the public, who might never have discovered them from my communication. You who have good brains and are manly and absorbed in others ought to be more compassionate. In the grand words of the poet...