Word: season
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard base ball mask has found favor with the professionals, and will be used extensively during the coming season...
With two months to choose from, Yale ought to find an available day, and if they refuse to do so, it will be with an evident desire to avoid a contest with us. As the Yale games are the most interesting and exciting of the season, we hope that they may take place this year, and as the matter has been brought forward thus early in the season, some satisfactory arrangement of the difficulty may yet be looked...
...event of the season at Cornell was the Navy Ball. The committee fully met the heavy responsibility cast upon their shoulders by providing "good music, a nicely crashed floor, and a good supper." "The ladies threw their sweeping trains in graceful curves, conscious of an admiring eye over yonder in the corner, while the gentlemen, perfectly overcome by this generous display of gracefulness for their own special benefit, now also make a desperate effort to appear graceful, causing a smile of pity on the faces of the ladies." Conscious curves would cause a smile of incredulity on even Mr. Tyndall...
...which, if not required by regulation, is certainly enjoined by the unwritten law of the College, - the Professor chose to have the questions inscribed on the blackboard, as is done for boys at schools. Now the eyes of many of us are not in the best condition in the season of the Semiannuals, and deciphering hieroglyphics at a time when every moment was precious proved a painful and irritating task. The Faculty have succeeded this year in crowding seventy-two examinations into eighteen days, and can congratulate themselves that they have thus made the work harder than ever before. They...
...evening was attended by only about twenty men. Officers were elected, but nothing more was done. We regret that this was the case, for we look to the H. A. A. for another winter meeting this year. The time immediately before and after the semiannuals is the most monotonous season in the whole nine months we spend in Cambridge, and anything which breaks the monotony is truly a godsend. The meeting of the Athletic Association last March in the Gymnasium was in the main successful, and we sincerely trust that we shall see another held there this year...