Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Western lawyer, introduced a new method of hazing. At midnight, accompanied by ten or twelve of his classmates, he would enter a freshman's room with a basket of young chimney swallows. When his companions had seated themselves solemnly in a circle, he proceeded to open the baskets and let the swallows fly. The fun then consisted in witnessing the poor freshman's attempts to catch them which often lasted until dawn. [Harpers Weekly...
...more amusing. Romulus and Remus are in love with Proserpina; they fight a duel about her, and Remus is killed; Romulus descends to Hades to recover his brother's soul, and finds Proserpina there on the same errand; Pluto falls in love with Proserpina and refuses to let her return to earth; the difficulty of providing a bridal trousseau is solved by the property manager, and the play ends in a blaze of red fire and a wild dance of demons, and condemned souls. Following is the cast: Romulus, (red,) Remus, (blue,) L. Anderson, L. Honore; Pluto, W. H. Rand...
...world into his chamber to inspect his bric-a-brac, and chat over his personal peculiarities. For this reason, then, it is to be hoped that the "Globe" will change slightly the general plan of the next article on Harvard "home life" which it sees fit to publish. Let the rooms be described and illustrated, by all means, for a feature of college life like this is a perfectly legitimate subject for descriptive writing, but let the accompanying biographettes of their inmates be omitted...
...information in the above about the change battery of our 'varsity nine is valuable, because quite new. The italics are our own. Let Harvard's freshmen give them proper attention...
...prospects in the coming contest for the "Mott Haven" cup. The article starts off with the statement that the most enthusiastic Yale man can only figure out second place for his college, and adds, "It seems that though the men who might take a first prize had concluded to let somebody else have a chance. Brooks, '86, the champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track, and now says nothing can induce him to enter. Meredith...