Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mile-walk was Harvard's." We were glad to hear that. But we didn't quite agree that "by far the most exciting event of the afternoon was the two-mile bicycle race" because everyone was agreed that excitement ran most high when "Columbia pulled Pennsylvania 8 inches...
...thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. The people of New England are by nature patient and forbearing, but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about "Beautiful Spring". I like to hear rain on a tin roof. So I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, air, do you think it ever rains on that tin? No, air; skips it every time. Mind, in this speech I have been trying merely to do honor...
...addresses of great literary and poetic merit that they ought to be received with at least as much enthusiasm as the hoard of political and social lectures which occur so frequently at more favorable times. We do not by any means begrudge the Cambridge public the opportunity to hear our distinguished visitors, but we do bemoan the fact that so few undergraduates care enough for literature to take an hour from their work or leisure to hear a truly notable poet...
...cure discovered useless for sea-sickness). Rest of the day: Bathing, lunch, baseball game, and track sports (relay race between Class Odor and Class Poet). 5.00 P. M., or thereabouts: Homeward bound. Half of Class sees a sea-serpent. Other half sees two. On landing, meeting is adjourned to hear Harvard Night at the Pops. (NO Silent Knight either, believe...
...clock, the Seniors attending in a body, where the Poem, Ode and Oration are delivered. At two the Yard is closed to all but holders of Yard tickets and Seniors in caps and gowns. At four the graduates, undergraduates and Seniors begin to march to the Stadium to hear the Ivy Oration and the customary songs and cheers, which are always followed by a confetti battle. In the evening the Yard is illuminated, and there is the usual band concert and, at nine the singing by the Glee Club on the steps of Sever. Also from 8 to 11 there...