Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this week's issue the Lampoon ceases to be altogether a college paper. Although it still retains the word "Harvard" on its titlepage, an effort will be made - as its editors announce - to "de-localize" it, and it is designed to have it fill, as far as possible, the place which has always been vacant in American journalism, - the place which is supplied in England by Punch...
CLASS DAY, or the mutilated affair which took the place of that ancient rite, was a success. The day itself was perfect, - no heat, no dust, no rain. The Seniors seemed to be bound that the quality of the amusement should make up for the quantity. The sensations in the morning were rather singular; sharing in expectancy of something to come, the missing of something that was not, and a general feeling of lie-on-the-grass laziness taking precedence of all other emotions. The average undergraduate discussed the chances of the match, the amount of money he was going...
...Crocker had been called to his home some time before the Columbia race, and his place was filled, on Tuesday, by Mr. Littauer, who did gallant service for Harvard. Mr. Crocker, however, with admirable self-sacrifice, returned to his fellows on Tuesday; and the knowledge of his presence-once more in the bow gave the wearers of the crimson fresh confidence in the result of the race with Yale. On Friday morning our crew were rowing better than Yale, and looked much stronger and more reliable; and it was then evident that, without accidents, the race would...
...unspoken, - a farewell for those whose records are written, whose annals are rolled up, and whose faces we are to see no more. During the past year there are numbered among them the good, the learned, and the brave, - Quincy and Motley and others, who, in their time and place, have led noble and truthful lives. I leave to each class, and to each circle of friends, the recollections that come, and must come of necessity, on a day like this. Yet, though I do not undertake to recall them by name, perhaps I may be permitted to make...