Word: recollections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...raising of the price of reserved seats at the 'varsity games is not only exorbitant but ill-advised. Perhaps the new manager thought himself justified by the precedent of the 'varsity foot-ball games, where 50 cents was charged for a reserved seat. If he did, he failed to recollect that this was a necessary step for the foot-ball management, because of the small number of foot ball games played here and because of the limited accommodations of Jarvs Field. For the base-ball management, the case is entirely different. Holmes Field will accommodate more than twice the number...
...next moment my body entered through the open door. It advanced toward the children, meaning as I saw to kill them. And it did kill them while I stood by in a gony. I shall not attempt to describe the murder, for the details of it are confused with recollections of what I had just been reading in De Quincey. What I remember most is my own face glancing at me, as the murder went on, with looks of mockery and hate. Then the room suddenly filled with people. I recollect the chill of fear I felt as the instinct...
...pleasure, and have on every evening drawn out large audiences. Although many of us do not fully agree with the lecturer's conclusions on the great subject of protective tariffs, we nevertheless recognize the ability and eloquence with which these lectures have been prepared, and delivered, and shall recollect Prof. Thompson as a gentleman who has given us his side of this economic question with an ease and grace which has been warmly appreciated...
...known when it first came into possession of the college, but "Appleton pasture" of which the Delta was once a part was added to the college lands in 1786. A prominent graduate of the class of 1821 who has lately died, speaks of the Delta, in a book of recollections as a place where "Turkey Shooting," a very popular pastime, was engaged in by the under-graduates. An enterprising yanker kept the turkeys on the Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship...
...annual and alwaysto-be-expected streak of Harvard meanness" has again cropped out, especially as the News disapproves, and are really glad to hear that the Courant decides that Yale's claim in regard to the first freshman game is valid. Strange as it may seem, we do not recollect that "Yale has yielded more than once to equally foolish and unfair demands from her rival." We venture a smile at the Courant's sarcasm in urging Yale "to assert a little independence in these matters...