Word: scene
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hamilton Park presents a lively scene. Among the sports which we have been accustomed to see there, we notice the presence of a new one in lacrosse. It is hoped that since that has been made a university matter it may continue to grow in popularity. Our team, though defeated in the two matches with Princeton, should find much encouragement in the closeness of the games. Victory can come only after long practice and experience. We hope for better success in the near future...
...very proper freshmen from time to time during the performance furtively glanced around, and beheld the eyes of some fifteen or twenty upper class men narrowly watching them. Not a sound was heard, however, but silently and stealthily, at the close of the performance, these freshmen glided from the scene of their terrible orgy, and emerged under the frosty starlight of Scollay square. With loudly beating hearts, forty freshmen took up their line of march for Cambridge bridge. There their courage failed. With a feeble cheer for '86, panic-struck, they turned and fled, some boarding a passing Harvard square...
...Scene - Young ladies boarding school. Prof.: "What can you say of Plutus?" Miss D.: "He was the son of Satan, and when his father died he gave him Hell...
...dreading Butler's election was the scandal they thought would be caused by the spectacle of his going out to Harvard College on commencement day to receive his LL. D., followed by a roaring mob of vicious and illiterate followers. Many old Bostonians have felt as if this scene, if they ever beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that, if elected, his appearance at the old university will be simply the triumph of a cultured conscience over the temptations and trials of American life and of the application to public affairs...
...Scene, chapel: Professor praying and certain preps studying - "Bless, we pray Thee, the students now studying here." Sensation among the preps. [Argo...