Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention propose a plan, of which the following extracts may give some idea...
They accordingly now invite the graduates and students of the University and the community at large to testify their appreciation of the heroic life and character of Gen. W. F. Bartlett by providing the means to carry out the above plans. Contributions may be paid to the treasurer, Gen. Charles L. Peirson, 44 Kilby Street, Boston, or, if more convenient, to any other member of the committee...
...apparatus in our old gymnasium is not what it should be, not what we should expect to find in a well-regulated gymnasium, and the idea of again making use of these old-fashioned fixings is absurd. We want better, and if better is not given us we may as well continue to use our old gymnasium with all its inconveniences...
...that they would unite in using their influence upon certain under-class men who seem to have forgotten that the day called in the catalogue Seniors' Class Day is not exclusively for them. I know that it requires some generosity to give up a desirable room to persons who may be almost strangers, but it also requires much selfishness to refuse to do so. As a last act of courtesy to the graduating class, as an effort to preserve the pleasant features of a time-honored festival, and as a means of justifying the request for a similar favor...
...very difficult to persuade them to keep in trim through the summer. Oxford is not confident of beating Cambridge, as six of last year's crew have left the boat, and in case of her defeat she fears a race with the losers would be unsatisfactory to Harvard. It may seem to some unfair that we should be deprived of an opportunity to retrieve our loss in '69; but when we consider the circumstances in which Oxford is placed and the difficulties attending all attempts to prolong the boating season in England, we can understand and appreciate her action...