Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...either of the university carnivals, says a recent writer in Chamber's Journal, would be regarded as a revolutionary innovator, no less dangerous than if he had proposed to pull down "Tom Quad," or to let out as building-plots the university cricket-ground. The great "bumping" races that occur at this time are thus described by the same writer: Though the pleasure is largely dependent on genial sky and favorable breezes there is something very alluring to strangers in the series of struggles to be witnessed in the Gut, the Plough and the Long Reach, from the vantage-ground...
...centennial celebration of the foundation of Phillips Exeter (N. H.) Academy will occur June 20 and 21 next. The committee appointed to take general charge of the arrangements consists of Governor Bell, John C. Phillips, Geo. A. Wentworth, Prentiss Cummings and Artemas H. Holmes. On the evening of the first day the reunion of the alumni will take place. On the closing day an oration will be given by Rev. Horatio Stebbins, D. D., of San Francisco, and a poem by Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Boston. At the after-dinner speaking George Bancroft, the historian, will preside...
...fools, to say that they do not elect men into the Glee Club for ability to sing, or into editorship for inability to write." Now, unfortunately, all college men are not distinguished for wisdom, and some are, perhaps, fools, hence it is not surprising that mistakes do sometimes occur, as they have already occurred. We do not wish to assert that men who cannot sing are chosen members of the Glee Club, but we may venture to say, since the Crimson has referred to this society, that men who can sing have sometimes failed to be chosen members. Then, coming...
Voted, That in view of the disturbances which occur upon college grounds during commencement week, and the public scandal and evil to the college resulting therefrom, the corporation hold themselves at liberty to revoke the degree of graduate of the university for participating in such disturbances, provided that he has not held the degree for more than one week...
...second annual ball of the Memorial Hall waiters will occur Dec. 6, at Paine Hall. A minstrel performance will open the evening's entertainment...