Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...altered Chapel was found to seat as many persons as the church of the First Parish, the exercises of Class Day and Commencement were held last June in the Chapel instead of in the church. Then disappeared the last trace of the official connection between the College and the First Parish, - a connection which had been maintained in various forms for more than two hundred years." - President's Report...
...Convention of the National Rowing Association of American Colleges will be held at Hartford, Wednesday, January...
...speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning is being augmented and his opinions digested, the man will one day blossom into a full-grown orator. Now on this point we are decidedly sceptical. We have always held, and still hold, to the idea that oratory is an art that grows by what it feeds on; that, while no amount of "well-arranged facts and settled opinions" will enable a man to "speak off-hand with ease," it is practice, and that chiefly, which gives confidence, ease, and power...
...feeling among the students in regard to the place where the next regatta should be held is strongly in favor of Saratoga. Springfield and New London are out of the question, and the dispute now is between Saratoga and Troy. It seems likely at present that the delegates will be instructed to vote in favor of Saratoga. There is a bitter feeling in the minds of many against the men who had the regatta in charge last year at Springfield; as immediately after the race, Cornell's position in the race was telegraphed over the country as eleventh, when...
This set of men has by no means passed out of college; but they are facile men, and feign the sentiment they cannot feel, if but the majority consider it the proper thing. As a set they have lost the position they once held. Then they were in their glory, when demerit marks took away all hope of ranking well from all but the most punctilious; when all studies were required studies, - under the old regime, in short, when nobody was ever mad enough even to dream of voluntary recitations. The position they once had, and the influence they appeared...