Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew need encouragement and support. This year they are going to meet Yale as well as Columbia on the water, and will accordingly have to work all the harder for victory. We don't ask the whole freshman class to go and sit for three hours on the platform in front of the boat-house; but we do think that a visit of only a few minutes from a few of their classmates will go far to show the crew that the class has not entirely forgotten their existence, simply because there is no passage way to the boat house...
...speakers, and some of the best work showed too much careful the previous training of the declaimers. The gesticulation, on the whole, was crude, but in some cases it was remarkable rather for its finish than for its aptness. The carriage of the majority of speakers on the platform, evidenced a serious lack of ease. The movements that were made were too often jerky. At times the stiffness of the whole action of the speaker detracted seriously from the spontaneity of the rendering. The competition, as a whole, was superior to that of last year, and equalled any that...
...were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium for the entire season, and are to be seen rowing there every afternoon at half past four o'clock. In order to accommodate the crew, a raised platform has been erected at the further end of the gymnasium; it is about nine feet from the floor, and about four and a half feet wide. Upon this platform eight rowing machines have been placed in position, and fastened to the walls are the weights. Although everything is very simple...
...Tuesday evening we would also say a word about the arrangements for lighting the reading desk in Sever 11. The gas jets are so arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before him a note, yellow with age, dated 1839, which runs as follows...