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...groan that went up when the dates of the Christmas holidays were first announced, subside. The student body murmured; the CRIMSON thundered; the Faculty recommended; and the Corporation voted. As a result the Christmas vacation this year will extend from December 21st to January 4th, inclusive, a day being added at each end by the thoughtful action of the Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORD OF THANKS. | 11/11/1913 | See Source »

Your bull--dog is groan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HOPE FOR YALE. | 11/23/1907 | See Source »

...several automobiles and carriages pass over at the same time, but in the opposite direction, insult is indeed added to injury. It would seem that we had returned to the triumphal procession of the Romans, and that while the chariots pass along, the people as well as the bridge groan. An effective measure might be taken by the football authorities to prevent such outrage by detailing a force of police at the north end of the bridge with instructions to halt all vehicles until the great crush should be over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 10/7/1907 | See Source »

...York, who also delivered the address. His text was taken from the ninth chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. He said that there are two creations in man: the body and the soul. The first is destructible and the second attains joy eternal. We groan because we have two different natures, that there is no unity in us; but who would not wish to take part in his soul's redemption? People who have turned from bad to good are often haunted by their evil thoughts and feelings of old. This is because their bodies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 10/22/1888 | See Source »

...looked sad and goreful. Sophomore Parker performed ground and lofty tumbling. He was occasionally seen to rise in the air and sail horizontally over the outskirts of the cloud. He usually came down on a freshman's head. When he did the freshman fell, 'and, falling, he uttered a groan and darkness covered his eyes.' In one of sophomore Parker's leaps he jumped clear out of his trousers, and thence-forth his costume was airy if not elegant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/20/1885 | See Source »

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