Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CLASS meeting of the Seniors will be held this evening in Boylston Hall at seven o'clock...
...remarkable views among us, it is necessary to consider those who do not accept this fundamental assertion; but these can certainly not think it honorable to feign a belief in such superstition by electing a man to pray for them. Very different opinions from those expressed are, I know, held by my friends. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the best construction will be put on the foregoing, and it will be understood that the only purpose is to warn men lest we leave college with a lie in our actions, if not on our lips...
...football matches between Harvard and Yale, which were so much desired and talked about last spring. The writer complained of Harvard's refusal to join a convention which met in New York last fall, and thought that football matches could be arranged without much difficulty if a meeting were held at some half-way point to draw up a set of rules by which games between the two Colleges could be governed. He then went on to state the differences between the rules of Harvard and of Yale, and to show that these differences might be done away with...
...race from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be made famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which...
Resolved, That, as a mark of the esteem in which our classmate was held, we wear the customary badge of mourning for the usual time...