Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...still is unpardonable, and it would be well in future for students who contemplate indulging in this kind of pastime, to pay a little regard to the feelings of the graduates. For they must know that graduates feel that they have a peculiar right to come back to the old spot once a year and enjoy themselves by themselves, and they regard as an intrusion the entrance of undergraduates on what they consider, and justly too, their own domain. This encroachment was particularly noticeable last Commencement Day, and in one or two cases under-classmen deliberately marched into and took...
...with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous...
...points in chronology. It decides that the Great Pyramid was built just "253 years after the Flood, and 150 before the Tower of Babel." This period was 3,971 years ago, and "it is but 3,367 years since Moses lived," so that the Pyramid was just 604 years old when the Israelites left Egypt...
...thinks that a "right ideal" should be adopted at the beginning, and the new system should be as much contrasted with the old one as possible. "Instead of complexity, there should be simplicity; there should be one sole and simple 'event,' a University boat-race between representative crews of the only two colleges in America whose names have anything more than a local significance. There should be no Freshman race, no single-scull contest, no athletic sports, no base-ball match, no regatta promenade, no glee-club concert; 'side-shows' of every name and description should be absolutely prohibited...
...performance was announced to begin at eight o'clock, and at a quarter past the pianist, with commendable promptness, favored the audience with the overture, which was shortly followed by the "Elixir of Youth." This piece represents the wonderful effect which a bottle of patent-medicine has upon an old lady of seventy-five years, by renewing her youth through successive steps until she reaches the state of infancy...