Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany, and in the immediate vicinity of the college it is practiced at the approach of the winter meetings to such an extent that three men make its instruction a specialty. As to dancing, I can only say that it would be a very amusing sight to see college men dancing under the supervision of a teacher...
...there would be little blame attached to your editorial. As if, however, this were not enough, you end with a personal tirade against Mr. Ferris himself. You must not look for the highest criterion of education in a sparring teacher. Yet this the pupils of Mr. Ferris' class can say for him, that in his classes he has always acted in a fair and gentlemanly manner...
...team by the members of '84; but as there was no team in '85, who shall elect the captain for '86? There are not enough men from the old '84 team left in college to make an election by them satisfactory; for if the election was at all close, say 4 to 3, there might be some hard feeling, and we want the season to open next fall with everything possible in our favor. I have tried the scheme of asking anyone who has ever played on the University team and who is now connected with the University to vote...
...prominent journal has recently published a sarcastic article on "Harvard slang" tending to show that although we are versed in many strange tongues and, strange to say, even in our own, we never speak in any of them, but express our ripest ideas for the most part in the questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal...
Memorial, the library and Glacialis, to say nothing of the places of amusement in Boston, were the chief resorts during the vacation. Men were noticeably prompt at every meal but breakfast; Glacialis, where the skating was very good, was frequently visited, and the library had its eye-glassed devotees in goodly numbers. The Christmas dinner at the hall was an elaborate and exceedingly enjoyable affair. Witness the following menu...