Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tuesday, January 19, at eight o'clock, a series of lantern slides from photographs of the Charles River will be exhibited by the Old Cambridge Photographic Club at Brattle Hall, for the benefit of the Social Union...
...Class Day over three days do not seem to appreciate the advantages which this arrangement offers to people coming from a distance, to see sons, or nephews or grand-sons graduate. The older folk generally want to stay for Commencement as well as Class Day and under the old regime they are obliged to fill the aching void between Friday and Wednesday as best they can. The three-day scheme, beginning of necessity on Friday, since the finals do not end till then, and lasting through Monday, offers a programme which can be enjoyed in gentlemanly leisure, yet which will...
...proposed by the Class Day Committee suggested a ball game with Yale on Saturday afternoon. Would it not be pleasanter and more appropriate to have a game with a team of graduates? There could be no possible ground for ill-feeling, we should be very glad to see famous old players again, and they would doubtless come back on that day more joyfully than on any other...
...past years. The danger which attaches to so large a gathering within so small a space has been pointed out already; and the inconvenience of it is patent. With the sentiment-"the tree has been used so many years," I have no sympathy. I would not live in an old building, on that account, if I could live in a new one, with its numerous conveniences. Harvard has outgrown many things, and she can well outgrow some more. A tree exercise, with plenty of room for every one, would be a glorious innovation...
...possession of the University. When the British captured Louisburg in 1755, one of the soldiers obtained the cross and brought it back to Boston. Soon after it was given to the University and when Gore Hall was built in 1841 it was set in the wall of the old transept on the side where the stack was subsequently built...