Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extensive method of entertainment has sprung. Compare the class day of 1834 with the iced punch, and the class day of 1893 with its spreads and teas, both private and society. Such is progress. In 1850, class day was placed upon the University Calendar by the side of its old rival, Commencement, and there it has remained ever since. The famous dancing on the green, which was much more pleasant in theory than in practice, and the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time. The exercises around the tree, the cheering...
...been changed to six, where he seems to row well, and as he is the heaviest man in the boat, it helps also to trim her better. Shea also has changed sides, going from six to three. At present he does not low so well as at his old position on the port side. Russell has been changed from one side to the other, from three to four. The object of this shifting of positions is to bunch the heavier men in the centre of the boat, and as they row now, with Shepard. Duffield and Russell, each weighing over...
...best show the character of the work. The book he says, "is exactly what its title represents it to be, some college verse - and nothing more." He hopes "that it may find a corner in the domain of lighter verse, that it may be a congenial complement to the old brier root during some idle hour of undergraduate life, and that it may awaken in those who have left their Alma Mater, the sleeping memories of that happy, careless past, - memories which neither time nor adversity nor absence can efface...
Frothingham, owing to a sprained ankle, did not play. Hovey took his old place at second and Ma on played in right field. Abbott distinguished himself at third handling without an error his six chances. Hallowell made a beautiful catch in centre...
...very creditable performance. The Glee Club was at its best and its singing can compare most favorable with any past year, for seldom before has it sung with such good artistic finish and careful phrasing. It is pleasant to find among its songs a few of the old favorites which we seldom hear now and which are decidedly worth keeping up. The solo by D. C. Greene was very pleasing; his voice is clear and sympathetic and he sang with good taste. J. A. Wilder received his usual ovation and was forced to respond to many encores before the audience...