Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The following account of the Yale-Princeton game is taken from the Sportsman, and is interesting as presenting a different version of the reported "slugging match" in which a Princetonian was figured as the aggressor. From what we have heard, the opposite would seem to be the case : "The Yale...
Early yesterday morning an unusual excitement was noticeable in the vicinity of the Park and Fifth Avenue Hotels in New York, where excited groups of students of Harvard and Yale respectively had gathered around the head-guarters of their representative in the approaching foot-ball match. Many were anxious Wednesday...
The habit of attending fires in Boston, as it had the effect of withdrawing the attention of the students from their duties, soon incurred the disapproval of the faculty and was the real cause of the dissolution of the company. a large fire in Boston was the occasion of great...
...Arnold would read several of his poems. Mr. Arnold then read for about an hour, prefacing his verses with remarks explanatory of the occasion of their being written, and of the allusions contained in them. On the whole, Mr. Arnold's rendering was very good, though it was occasionally marred by indistinct utterance...
We heartily concur with the views of a correspondent printed in another column, as to the propriety of marking in some way the birthday of the great reformer. The suggestion of a lecture from Dr. Emerton seems to us an especially happy one and we are sure that many would...