Word: recess
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Thanksgiving Recess begins on Wednesday...
PROFESSOR PALMER will read the sixth book of the Odyssey on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving recess, and it will probably be the last of his series of readings this year...
...certainly did remember the name of Rumvill, but I could n't recollect that we had been exactly brothers there. In fact, I think I remember his lifting me up by the ears one recess; and he got licked for it, too, the cowardly dog. But still I asked him to sit down, and remarked that it was a long time since then...
IMMEDIATELY before the recess, certain public-spirited individuals circulated petitions requesting the Faculty to change the time of prayers to an hour earlier. The petitions were signed by something less than half the men in college, and we believe it was considered useless to present them to the Faculty. Prayers will remain, therefore, as at present. We discussed in our last issue the inconveniences which would attend the plan of having breakfast before prayers. It seems, however, that the men who are anxious to rise with the lark are very much in earnest; this is particularly the case with...
...serious loss. Base-running is a feature wherein our men ought to excel, since they have the brain to judge and the swiftness to execute. But there is much to praise and little to criticise in the present record of the Nine. The two games in Boston during the recess were very finely played. The last was one of the most interesting and exciting games ever played upon those grounds. By a glorious hit in the ninth inning, victory was snatched from the very jaws of defeat only to be quickly thrown back by three or four unfortunate errors...