Word: hall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very brilliantly lighted with Chinese lanterns, a crimson arch over the entrance opposite University being a new feature in the illumination. The crowd, after promenading or sitting in the windows during the singing of the Glee Club, little by little departed for the President's reception and Memorial Hall, where the band was playing for dancing. At the spreads there did not seem to be as many ladies as last year, but the hall was as full as it could well hold, and many couples took the opportunity to retreat to the theatre, which was opened for flirtations. Towards...
...MEMORIAL Hall was filled to overflowing on the afternoon of Commencement Day, and not a few had to stand while partaking of the annual feast. General Devens presided, and after the dinner had been disposed of commenced as follows...
...truthful lives. I leave to each class, and to each circle of friends, the recollections that come, and must come of necessity, on a day like this. Yet, though I do not undertake to recall them by name, perhaps I may be permitted to make one exception in this hall dedicated to the memory of those who gave their lives for the Union, and recall him who was our marshal the first time that we came here, who was as truly a martyr of the war as if he had fallen on the field; though permitted a few years...
Postmaster-General Key was the next speaker, and again the hall was made to ring with the applause. He spoke very briefly as follow...
COLLEGE papers of that class which delight their readers with articles on "Character," "Fame," and the "Whole Duty of Man," have been greatly distressed this year because our papers have given up so much space to matters relating to Memorial Hall, and the Yale papers even have failed to find interesting some of our discussions on the commons. These papers probably do not know how great an institution our Dining Association is, and how intimately the students are connected with its management. They do not know that the Hall, which in a year does a business as great...