Word: presented
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...happy to see fair ones from Vassar present today at the Class-Day exercises; and, though they find the demonstrations here of a somewhat more noisy character than at their own celebration of this college festival, we trust they will not find it any the less enjoyable...
STUDENTS are very much desired to be present at the exercises in Memorial Hall, which will begin at half past three o'clock on Tuesday. Graduates, undergraduates, and invited guests will form in procession in front of Massachusetts Hall at three o'clock, and march to Memorial, where they will occupy seats set apart for them. - Advocate...
...throughout the game, and line catches by the 2d and 3d base, were the best individual plays on the part of the Harvards. The Bostons, as usual, played an almost faultless game. The high wind and the efficiency of the police were the only drawbacks and the large crowd present seemed thoroughly to enjoy the game...
...writer next informs us, and no doubt on excellent authority, that the Southern States are at present engaged in the unpleasant occupation of "writhing and groaning under the ignorant despotism of their colored legislators." This is adduced as a particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition...
...than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also find that when the Mayor of New Orleans appealed to the North in behalf of the sufferers by a destructive flood in that locality, he received something besides "the cold shoulder...