Word: scene
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seniors held their class day elections last Thursday. The balloting was the scene of much bickering and "wire-pulling." Some claim that there was underhand dealing; at any rate, a number of the most prominent men in the class were left in the cold, not even getting on the class day committee...
...force as to compel his senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...yard. Roman candles, colored fire, rockets and shouting, mingled with the noise of bombs, made up the equipments of enthusiastic freshmen. On the steps of University cheers were given for the eleven, individual players, the classes, and finally for Harvard. Then a rush was made for Jarvis field, the scene of the victory, and a good-sized bonfire was soon in progress where lately the Yale rushers were in vain attempting to keep the ball away from their goal-posts...
...open to the members of the college, the only reason why they do not attend Chapel is without question because the custom has never been instituted. But now that the petty restrictions of compulsory attendance at Appleton Chapel have been rescinded, now that Appleton Chapel, no longer the scene of a school exercise, has become a University house of worship, now that every man in the University is as much interested that the Chapel service shall prove successful as any member of the college, there is no question as to the proper course for the students to pursue...
...complete transformation of the scene of the past three days has taken place. Few traces now remain of the celebration, and the college has once more returned to its normal condition with apparently as little effort as it assumed its abnormal one. The college authorities, and the undergraduates who co-operated with them, are to be congratulated upon the way in which all the arrangements were made for the successful issue of Harvard's 250th birthday. But during the short space of three days, much has happened which time alone can never efface from the memory of all those...