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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then, as now, may the graduates of Harvard look backward with exultation and thanksgiving, and forward with confidence and high resolve...
...look back upon that procession now to see only a host of shadows. Out of a committee of forty, two only beside myself are left, the prominent lawyer of Boston, Sidney Bartlett, and our illustrious poet who gave the charming little song upon that occasion and who has given a noble poem upon this occasion and who, we all rejoice to perceive, has renewed his youth like the eagle, after that brilliant flight across the Atlantic and that rapturous reception by old England. [Applause...
...Harvard to the foot ball fraternity comes to-day. Much depends, then, on the issue of this afternoon's game, for it would be glorious indeed if Wesleyan could in future boast of a victory over Harvard on the occasion of her celebration in 1886! Let our players look to it, then, that no such disgrace occurs...
...crimson fire. Green light appeared below it; but all else was utter gloom. It was a wonderful sight. Every nook and cranny of the great building was flooded with the fiery glow, as it stood out in unrelieved intensity from the black mountain side. Thus it must have looked when Tilly paused on the Terrace to look back at the glorious bon-fire he had kindled. The majestic ruin, majestic even in its downfall, bore in its glowing sides the marks of its history. Turenne's cannon have pounded these walls; the thunderbolt has smitten them again and again; French...
...pretzels. As nine o'clock approaches, the excitement becomes intense. Every available standing place is occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported...