Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...office of the present Executive Committee notice was given by the Athletic Committee of the faculty that no professional trainer would be allowed within the college grounds. The desire of that committee was to make the tone of college athletics higher than they had feared it had been of late years and was not at all to discourage a healthy interest in athletics. The whole ground of this matter has been gone over more fully in the college papers than I can do in this report and it will suffice for me to state what, in my opinion, has been...
...Winslow was elected captain of the nine in place of Mr. Thayer. Mr. Bradford was re-elected captain of the eleven. Messrs. Halhert, Webster and Nutter were appointed a committee to take suitable action on behalf of the class in relation to the death of Mr. Greenough Thayer, late member of the class...
...festive spirit which seems to be rife among certain students of late, and which relieves itself by making outrageous noises in the yard every night, ought to be repressed by them. It is to great a nuisance to be endured longer. If men do not care to study themselves, at least common courtesy ought to keep them from greatly annoying those who are compelled to work. A little reflection must show any one who has been rude enough to create a disturbance that he has done a most unjust thing, and will, we sincerely trust, lead him to cease hereafter...
...Cambridge, and it has been handed down along with the other good old customs, with all its mellow influences unimpaired. In the old days the punch used to be served in huge tubs on the college green, and classmates pledged each other's health in generous tin dippers. Of late years. however, each class has provided a separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings...
...Kappa Alpha Society, the oldest of the college Greek letter secret fraternities, was founded at Union College in 1825. Its first chapter was planted at Williams College in 1833, among the founders at Williamstown being the late United States Senator James Dixon of Connecticut. The Williams chapter is to celebrate its semi-centennial this year in connection with the college commencement. A public reception will be given on the evening of July...