Word: men
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...success of the theatricals in New York has been the topic of conversation in college for a week, but we cannot pass them by without notice. That these theatricals were the best ever given by Harvard men is everywhere conceded, and indeed it would be hard to give a play under a combination of more favorable circumstances. The class of '77 while in college had a great and well deserved reputation for acting, and '79, in the late performance in Boston, proved to be a worthy successor. A powerful cast was secured by choosing the best actors from these classes...
...hope that Oxford's refusal to row us will not altogether break up our crew, for, although we know that the only condition on which some of our men promised to row was that the crew should be sent to England, yet there are enough of the old men left to form a nucleus on which to build an eight that could without doubt win another victory for us at New London. Now that we have lost the championship in football, and the prospects in base-ball are anything but encouraging, it devolves upon the crew all the more...
...Pall Mall Gazette of December 10 appeared an article under this title that throws some light on the action of that university. From this we learn the trials, comprising about all the rowing talent that Oxford can show this winter, are composed of almost entirely new men, only two of the old hands pulling in the two boats. As Oxford managed to retain last year five of her old oars, two of whom were fourth-season men, the contrast of circumstances this year is rather unpleasant...
Speaking of the crews, the Gazette says: "The material, taking the men separately for their physique, is fair, but nothing exceptionally strong; here lies the weak point of Oxford this season. We do not mean to say that the men are a weakly lot. There are plenty of good No. 3's and No. 2's, but there is a dearth of those first-class giants of which a good crew should always have three or more." Then follows a criticism of the men individually, which suggests that there is material in the boats that can be improved and developed...
...give it a name." There is a collar dubbed "Harvard," because no one in Harvard wears a collar that looks anything like it. The application of the term to a hat that was put on the market last spring was particularly unfortunate. It is true that a few '78 men were inveigled into buying the "tile" just before Class Day, but as a large running track, carefully surveyed and levelled, extended around the hat, it did not meet the popular taste here, and failed to be, as they say at the Gaiety, a gigantic success...