Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week? To those of us who live away from Boston, it is a pleasant thing to be able to pass Easter and the following week at home. Besides it makes a very fair break in the time between January 1st and July 1st. The proposal seems to meet with great favor among many of the undergraduates, and there seems to be no strong reason why it should not be adopted by the faculty. Easter-tide is almost as much of a holiday all over the country as Christmas. Schools and colleges close their doors and grant a vacation for several...
...fill in the hearts of undergraduates, and Dr. Patton, both of whom made short speeches. The latter said he would attempt to carry out the policy which Dr. McCosh had inaugurated and would make no changes in the government of the college. The news of his election created great enthusiasm, as those undergraduates who have been under his instruction are devoted to him. He preached yesterday in the college chapel, which was filled to overflowing by strangers who wished to hear his first sermon since his election, and by many it was thought to be the most powerful sermon ever...
...morrow will be given up to these festivities almost entirely. The Glee and Banjo Clubs give their semi-annual concert to-morrow evening, and as they are each in splendid trim an excellent concert is expected. A unique feature will be introduced, which will create great mirth if nothing more, in the shape of a quartette of the poorest singers in college, it being a physical impossibility for any one of them to carry a tune. The Ivy Club gives a tea to the patronesses of the assembly from three to five, to which about two hundred invitations have been...
...cage will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the nine and would have been of much greater if it had been ready for use at the beginning of the term. As it was, the candidates were compelled to waste nearly a month, although Capt. Wagenhurst had his men at work in the gym as much as possible. The cage is not large enough to have first and third laid out, and so the men practise batting, base running and throwing from home to first and second principally without having a whole infield. Our great difficulty this year will...
...bringing before it a correct idea of what the college has a right to expect that it will accomplish this spring. The number of candidates almost immediately doubled and all set to work with an energy and vim which was truly admirable, but only suggestive of the great difficulties which will have to be overcome if a respectable nine is to be placed in the field this year. The system of training which is at present being carried out is only initiative of the work which is to be commenced immediately after the mid-years. At present...