Word: senior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior Class met in Upper Massachusetts Hall last Wednesday night for the purpose of electing officers for their Class Day, June 19, 1874. The meeting was the largest ever held by the class, 146 members being present, and was opened by the election of Mr. Richmond as Chairman and Messrs. Merwin, Elwood, and F. J. Stone as Secretaries. The election of officers began with the choice of Orator, and Mr. R. H. Dana, being the only candidate, was elected by acclamation. For Poet the candidates were Messrs. Mackintosh and Fenollosa. The result of the ballot was as follows...
...certain statements relating to college matters which have lately appeared in the Boston Advertiser. We refer especially to the Advertiser of last Wednesday, in which, among other statements, - none of which, even if true, should have been published in any but a college paper, - the preliminary action of the Senior Societies in reference to the class elections was given...
...both those who are in favor of continuing the old custom and its opponents have very strong feelings upon the subject. A writer in the same paper suggests that "Bones men" refrain from wearing their pins in public, in order to do away with the hard feelings in the Senior Class "which are due to the relations of Bones men and Neutrals." As Harvard men, we approve of such advice, not as applied to the Skull and Bones in particular, but as extended to every society whose members sport a pin; but in our eyes Yale shorn of badges would...
WHAT are we to think of the Senior who replied to the question of his instructor, "How would you ask for two glasses of lager?" "By raising two fingers," and that "he had been there." Perhaps it would be well to add, for the benefit of those who are waiting to find out where the laugh comes in, that the instructor expected him to say, "Zwei glas lager." - Chronicle...
...CERTAIN professor, whose chin was wont to be graced by a flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that's the hardest-looking Freshman I've seen...