Word: hung
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Every year considerable trouble is caused by the falling lanterns which are hung around the yard in such a fantastic manner on class day. It is not only unpleasant but really dangerous for a person when promenading to be struck by one of these burning lanterns. Toward the latter part of the evening when the candles have burned down the number of lanterns which have caused trouble and inconvenience have been noticeable, and we hope that this year additional precaution will be taken to prevent any recurrence of this kind...
...size of the audience, "that it is possible, even in an address before a total abstinence society, to have too much cold water. The speaker opened his address by an allusion to the meeting held yesterday in Tremont Temple in memory of Wendell Phillips, where thousands of people hung on the lips of the orator of the occasion. Two years ago Wnedell Phillips delivered his last public speech. It was directed to the educated men of the country, in behalf of individual abstinence from intoxicating liquors. The argument was based on the double ground-personal benefit, and patriotic devotion...
...these days when everything seems hung in the balance, when settled convictions are so rare in all questions, of religion, of science and of art, the lecturer was glad to find a body of young men who had reached "any conclusion, to any extent, on any subject." The members of this society have concluded that "for the time being at least," they will be better off without alcoholic liquors of any kind...
There are several men in '87 who have thus far not shown themselves and whose records last year on school nines almost warrant them positions. In the course of several weeks the candidates will be measured for the uniforms, and we trust that the men who have thus far hung back will come forward and settle down to steady work. The freshmen can not claim that no interest has been taken in them, for they are watched daily and advised by members of the 'Varsity nine. We have thus far found fault with '87's nine, but we wish...
Among the floral decorations at Junior Promenade Concert at Yale, was suspended a large floral foot-ball, bearing the word "champion" in white upon its sides; from it hung two smaller foot-balls, painted crimson and orange and black. During the evening the football, with its appendages, fell and broke upon the floor. Was it an ill omen? [Princetonian...