Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Delegates from Yale, Princeton and Harvard base-ball teams, met in New York, at the Fifth avenue Hotel, Saturday evening, and held a secret session to consider the programme for the next season...
...society, called the Gamma Nu. It is a debating club, and meets every Saturday night and generally has about forty members. The new men are initiated by the sophomores, and the society turned over into the hands of the freshmen shortly after term begins. There are a few freshman secret societies, but they are not recognized by the faculty. The next thing of any importance is flag-raising. This has ceased to be an active custom, but is sometimes observed. The freshmen try and raise a flag with their class numerals on it, the night of the Glee Club concert...
...expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University-and their expectations are fully reached. The young fellows who wish to be at all prominent in the social life of the University town, join the famous "Corps" which are secret organizations formed for the avowed purpose of dueling and drinking. When a man enters one of these federations, he throws aside all possibility of doing anything intellectual. It is a fact well to be borne in mind that these "Bruederschaften" are the only clubs which the students have as a general thing...
...Swan's Secret" is an interesting tale of the downward career of an Italian noble in the guise of a revolutionist. There is a pathetic current running through it, and the individuality of the writer is at times strongly marked. The idea of introducing the swans at the end of the story is a very happy...
...following is a list of the attractions at the New York theatres: Casino- "The Marquis;" Union Square- Robson and Crane in "The Henrietta;" Standard- "Dorothy;" Bijou Opera House- Rice's "Corsair;" Academy of Music- "A Dark Secret;" Lyceum,- "The Wife;" Metropolitan Opera House- Thursday, Nov. 24, Gerster Concert, Friday, November 25; "The Prophet;" Saturday matinee, "Trumpeter of Sacking;" Fifth Avenue- "The Begun;" Harrigan's "Pete;" Star- "Faust;" 14th Street- Denman Thomson in the "Old Homestead;" Niblo's- Joseph Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkle;" Poole's- "The Ticket-of-Leave Man;" Wallack's- Thursday evening, "School;" Friday evening, "Caste;" Daly...