Word: season
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PORTER'S HOTEL is to remain unoccupied for a season, that it may be remodelled...
...that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen is to neutralize the intention for which it is given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost as absurd...
...season seems to be a favorable one for controversies between college papers. The Courant and Record have wheeled into line after the example of the Era and Review, and are having "a real old-time Greco-Roman with crossed quills." The Courant has in its last issue a pretty severe "rough" on one of the Record editors, and we are waiting with anxiety to see the Record pay back the compliment with interest. Thank Heaven that the Advocate and Crimson can nearly always confine their remarks about each other to their brevity columns...
...nine, for the retrieving of our lost honors of last year. Captain Hutchinson is doing vigorous work in the base-ball interests of the college. Negotiations have been on foot, now for a long time, for the series of games that will begin with the opening of the season." The Courant is at present exchanging compliments with the Record, as witness the following: "When we turn to the exchanges our surprise all vanishes as we see the students of Cornell characterized as 'muckers and slums,' and language used which would befit only a loafer or a tramp...
...labor of the year was lightened somewhat by a season of festivity, occurring about the middle of the year, and lasting several days, called the Semmi-Anualls. The amusements, which were varied, remind one somewhat of a country fair of the present day. In the Bodleian is preserved a tattered and dingy pamphlet, in which the exercises are designated by mysterious combinations of letters and numerals, and are briefly described. After much study I have deciphered a part of it. As each student kept at least one horse, racing was one of the chief amusements, and the list of races...