Word: hails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...history of the University has our Alma Mater gone into the extravagance of presenting her foster children with a Christmas present. Massachusetts 3 has been adorned with window shades, an extravagance which some conservatives may be ready to condemn, but which no former sufferer from Phoebus' rays will not hail with delight. Since the University has been ready to do so much for our comfort, the sanguine among us may hope to see plank-walks throughout the yard before the twentieth century dawns on the world...
...hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other...
Since the spring of 1882, when the marvellous success of the presentation of Oedipus Tyrannos at Harvard warranted the reproduction of that play in New York, no Greek play of any description has been attempted here. It is with a fraternal feeling that we hail the advent of the "Acharnians," to be presented to-night by the students of the University of Pennsylvania in New York. This play has been given before in Philadelphia, where it created a most favorable impression, and was received with the greatest marks of approval by all present. The success of this play has attracted...
Venerable alma mater, we hail thee as the mother of a mighty race...
...Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon the deal boards. Then all begin to stamp in unison and smite...