Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talkers invariably arrive late and their seats are always far from the door. They are seen beyond a doubt (if they desire that), but unfortunately they are heard too. In time they reach their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that...
...pleasant task now to congratulate the directors of the Union on the way it has been conducted this fall. The last debate was as lively and interesting one as is usually held in a presidential year, and the large number remaining to the close - an unusually late hour for the Union - shows how keen an interest was maintained to the close. The Union under good auspices, is a very useful organization, and we are glad to see live questions under discussion and interest so aroused in debates as at present...
...Lanciani, is to be continued during January by Professor Frothingham, upon the archaeology of Assyria. The lectures of a man so well known in his department, although perhaps on a less popular branch of the study, are deserving of large attendance. The science so thoroughly developed by Rawlinson and lately by Schliemann and his co-workers has become a common and widely interesting part of human knowledge. Even part of the news of the daily press of late years has been reports of the successes or failures of archaeologists working upper the direction of states or through individual effort...
...time between Thanksgiving and the Christmas recess is generally considered dull in the athletic world. But in a quiet way during the late fall there has been much hard work done in the gymnasium and out, and the general interest has been creditable to Harvard muscle. The floor of the gymnasium has been thronged with the active tumblers, under the careful instruction of Mr. Lathrop. The class crews have all made a good start in the winter training and are rowing with full crews, many new men being attracted by the possibility of vacant seats in their respective boats. Neither...
...formerly occurred here, the rallying cry was "Yale! Yale! Yale!" and was so well understood that it almost immediately emptied the college buildings of students and assembled them in a body on the campus. A "tiger" was formerly employed after the athletic victory, but has gone into disuse of late...