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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tender memories, better known as the Horse-car Station.) From this meagre beginning the present 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...
...first meetings were in football last fall when the University of Minnesota won the championship. The base ball series is now in progress, and the four universities will meet for the first time in track athletics Saturday, June third at Chicago...
...French, but pursued their studies mostly in the Latin language. Liprius and Gronovius, probably the most celebrated men of their age, spent their time in commenting upon and annotating the lines of Latin authors. The English and later Dutch comprise the third period and include the progress that was made in the eighteenth century. Bentley was the most prominent man of his time, although not much of an author. The fourth and last stage may be called the German period, although other countries have made nearly as much progress. It embraces the nineteenth century. Wolf was among the first...
...class baseball games. Occasionally there creeps in an element that is entirely out of place and to be condemned heartily. We regret, however, to see the tendency to go to the other extreme and ignore all class feeling. Thus far the seniors and juniors have watched the progress of their nines with stolid indifference. Today the tie game between the two classes is to be played, and we hope to see a more lively interest taken. It will certainly be refreshing after the experience...
...passed three years at Cambridge, but found himself out of the spirit of the place. He then went to France and found his soul stirred by the revolution then in progress, but the extreme to which it was carried, disgusted him and he returned to England to lead the simple, sturdy life of an English conservative...