Word: sheff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dorothy Bell" is well written, rather pointless and as yet the telescopic eye of the Sheff. note editor has been unable to discover why the chimneys of "my aunt's" house should be "comfortably smoking" while Mollie is at the same time "shading her eyes from the hot sun." Smoking with reflected heat, probably. The essay on "Modern Realism" is partly true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side...
...showing of a red flag to an enraged bull, so he told them: "No flags, boys, if you please." The boys consented. One of the freshmen then obtained employment as a supe from Lizzie Evans company, which to-night played "Sea Sands." He had the flag of Sheff. '89 concealed about his person. Just toward the middle of the first act a boat crossed the stage as a part of the play. Two persons are in this boat, and when it came in full view of the audience, there was the obnoxious flag mounted in the stern of the boat...
...side doors of the stage, but they met freshmen at every point. The freshmen were too numerous, and the sophomores were forced to swallow their indignation and endure their defeat like men. Then the freshmen, at the conclusion of the performance, marched up Chapel street 200 strong, defying the Sheff. juniors and Academy sophomores. But the matter will not end here. The sophomores and the Sheff. juniors will find some way, they declare, to rebuke the audacity of the freshmen of both Sheff, and the Academy department...
...sophomore and freshman classes at Harvard felt the fever and both played intercollegiate matches with Yale, and were beaten 23 to 22, 38 to 18. In the sophomore match a "Sheff" man played on a Yale class team for the first time, by Harvard permission. The university game with Williams for the championship was twice postponed on account of rain, and at last abandoned. Yale again declined to play...
...recent meeting of the Sheff. Freshmen the class cane was finally decided upon. The head is of sterling silver embossed with oxidized raised flowers. At one end will be engraved "Yale, '89, S.," and on top the name of the owner. The stick is of light colored English hazel...