Word: recitatione
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: It may not be generally known that the song, "Fair Harvard," was composed in one of the rooms in the building now occupied by the Harvard Annex. The author, Samuel Gilman, belonged to the class of 1811, and while in Cambridge at his class reunion in 1836...
Members of Political Economy I. A. are expected to review the subject of international trade and value, for the first recitation after the recess.
A Yale sophomore celebrated the closing of the second term last week by fastening to the ceiling of one of the recitation rooms a placard bearing the legend, '89.
The Yale faculty fined a sophomore $2 last week for cutting his name on a tablet in a recitation room.
A perfect recitation is called a "tear" at Princeton, "squirt" at Harvard, "sail" at Bowdoin, "rake" at Williams and "cold rush" at Amherst. A failure in recitation receives the title of "slump" at Harvard, a "stump" at Princeton, a "smash" at Wesleyan and a "flunk" at Amherst. - Amherst Student.