Word: recording
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This gentleman's statistics of the number of beards, the ages, the religions, the sizes of shoes, and the weights of the class seemed to interest the people of Orono, and his record of the scenes of hazing his class had been through thrilled the audience with enthusiasm. The prophecy must have been even more uninteresting to a stranger. But the valedictory reached the climax of the absurd. After informing us that this was the last time his class would ever meet together, he thanked the President and Superintendents for their leniency, and expressed his gratitude to the people...
...quite fashionable for Harvard men to be somewhat boastful of the various advantages and superiorities of their Alma Mater. This boasting is harmless enough, but it would be well for the men who indulge in it to devote themselves to the present; for, should they look into the past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record...
...content with inserting two pages of advertisements in the body of the paper, the Record devotes a portion of its editorial space to puffing a jewelry manufactory. It is not clear whether the editors set a high value on the merits of the advertisements or a very low value on the merits of the articles. The same paper pathetically asks, "Where is the Yale Athletic Association?" No athletic association has been seen loafing around here this spring, but that is all the help we are able to give...
...warning given in the last issue of the Record, that unless the requisite funds can be secured no race will be rowed with Harvard this year, ought not to be disregarded. Two weeks of the time within which the sum must be raised have already passed. Within the coming fortnight additional exertions will be made, that the old-time struggle may be enacted again next June. It is needless to reiterate the claims which this matter has on the consideration of the College. Every man ought spontaneously to recognize the misfortune which a refusal to row our doughty antagonist would...
...Record would make a few more paragraphs in its articles, one would be tempted to read them; but three columns in a single paragraph is more than one cares to undertake. When treating of the oratorical contest under the title of "A Literary Circus," it is certainly not witty, as the following extract will show: "The auburn-whiskered Higginson must have made an irreproachable ring-master. As for lugubrious clowns, representatives of the Darwinian theory and animals which sometimes prefer to "locomote" backward, who can doubt that they put in a large, if not an appreciated representation...