Word: greene
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...customs have been done away with at Yale as well as at Harvard. These charges are especially noticeable in the class-day exercises of the two colleges. In former days, the graduating class took breakfast with the President, and in the afternoon came the memorable dance upon the green. At Yale usages have been abandoned even more than at Cambridge. One of the best known ceremonies that no longer occupies a part of the presentation week is the Wooden Spoon Ceremony. This custom had its origin at one of the colleges at Cambridge University, England. Before 1865, it was usual...
...Green, '89, is no longer a candidate for the '89 tug-of-war team, having cut his hand in the laboratory...
...fifth annual re-union and banquet of the Delta Upsilon Club of New England, was held at Young's Hotel, Tuesday evening. The colleges represented were Williams, Amherst, Tufts, Colby, Harvard, Brown, Middlebury, Rochester, N. Y. and the Michigan University. The Rev. B. A. Green of Lynn, vice-president, Brown, '72, presided in the absence of the president...
Brooks, F. Green, Hall, Maynadier, Whitney and Zinkeisen have been elected members of the Signet from...
...made by nearly all the classes to select good tug of-war teams. Eighty-nine is exerting itself particularly, and the candidates practice every afternoon about four o'clock. Fourteen men are trying for positions-J. H. Sears, Stevenson and F. M. Brooks for anchor; Grew, Marquand, Deblois and Green for No. 1; Hunneman, Hunter, Raymond and Bartharlow for No. 2; Endicott, Anderson and Munroe for No. 3. Although these men are doing excellent work and will undoubtedly furnish a good team, it is not at all likely they will be able to hold out against '88's team, which...