Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows an impetus toward success that was irresistible, and that swept their opponents into almost nothingness...
...concerned, - the breakfast given by Mr. Lowell to the graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair will be seated on the soft boards which surround Holmes Field, and they will witness, in place of the exercises around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity...
...before the race with Yale. We said, in our ast issue that we hoped it would be possible to accept this challenge; and we are heartily glad that it has been done. Columbia, much disappointed at Cornell's backing-out, is anxious for a race, and seems willing to place herself at some disadvantage in order to get one. Her situation this year is a peculiar one, and she had thus some reason to expect from Harvard that courtesy which has now been shown in accepting her challenge. She should remember, however, that only this year is she thus situated...
...with no College at all. The last number contains a synopsis of the libretto of "Tannhuser," which at Hanover is spelt with only one n; an account of a palace-car journey from Boston to St. Paul's, Minnesota, in which we learn that Buffalo is "a place of great commercial interest and a great entrepot for the grain of the West"; an abstract of the Eastern Question; and an article on "Reading and Observation"; the whole capped off by a very short editorial (on Class-Day Parts) and a few items. A college paper is meant for the college...
...owed its increase to each student's yearly donation of one hundred volumes, was kept in the gymnasium, and when proctors successfully looked after the moral training of the youth. But both differences and similarities show that student life is much the same, whatever the time or wherever the place...