Word: may
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PROPOSE to devote this article to the amenities of college life in May. We have been told a great many times what a delightful month this is in other places, but Harvard has certain beauties of its own at this time of the year that are worthy of record, and would be sufficient even for a tolerably long epic. First, of course, here as everywhere else, we have this delightful spring weather, these beautiful days with the mercury reaching after ninety, and your spring suit still at the tailor's. Then these charming evenings, occupied in grinding for the annuals...
...list of examinations at so early and convenient a date. We must also notice the opportunity which has been afforded for changes in the Tabular View, which must be appreciated by those who have laid out a regular plan of study for their college course. In conclusion, it may not be amiss to hope that the expectations of the Junior class may be fulfilled in regard to voluntary recitations for next year...
...have heard some dissatisfaction expressed at the tedious delays that took place between the races on Saturday. Those who complain may not always remember that much of the delay is occasioned by the fact that some men are entered for two consecutive races; and these men can hardly be expected to step from one boat into the other without some rest. Still the time that intervened between two successive races was, in nearly every case, unnecessarily long. We should like to call the attention of the several captains to this point in the races to-day; as we feel sure...
...Saturday, and the Nine will return home the first of the week. Owing to the failure of the Manchesters to put in an appearance on Tuesday, more than seven hundred people were turned away from the gates. The next game with the Manchesters will be played at Manchester, Thursday, May 21; and on Decoration Day the Nine will play the Lowells at Lowell...
...Beacon Park, we understand that the entry-book is well filled; and we hope to see a large and fashionable attendance of our fair friends at the Park, where they will find better accommodation than we could have offered them on Jarvis. We trust the result of the meeting may show, in spite of the Transcript, that the youth of Harvard, the flower of the country, has not yet entirely run to seed...