Word: rose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...souls of many men rose in patriotic indignation as they sat listening to a lecture in History -, hearing the Constitution of the United States discussed while the chimes were pealing into their ears that they ought to celebrate Washington's birthday in some more exhilarating...
...subject - among them Wyllys Terry, Walter Camp, George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton frightened the Yalensians into refusing. "Treason! Treason!" was the general cry of the assembly...
Thus ended the great games with the Lowells, where excitement over athletics between town and gown rose to a higher height than it ever did before, and probably ever will again...
...Sodality was founded in 1808, but we are only able to trace its history from 1832 on, as the records for the intervening period have disappeared most mysteriously. In those days "scarcely a sound but flutes was heard. From these the gentle murmurings or liquid trills rose from every side of the quadrangle the moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large...
...Last Rose of Summer...