Word: signs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatest bugbears is a military funeral. If the thermometer drops to ten below zero, we regard it as a sure sign that some old brigadier will need "polishing." This is a very disrespectful way to speak of burying a brave old soldier, but have we not provocation? A funeral means two hours under arms, and a tramp through the cold and snow to the grave-yard where the volley that does honor to the departed, gives us an hour's work cleaning our guns. Long life to all that in tend to be buried here...
After much delay, the dinner committee of the sophomore class has decided upon a date for the class dinner, Saturday of the present week. It is, perhaps, needless to urge '87 to go to the dinner; they will go without urging; but the sophomores should remember that they must sign the book at once or else the committee can form no idea of how many are going, and their plans cannot be perfected until the last minute, an inconvenience which only men who have had experience on such dinner committees can appreciate. The sophomore class dinner is the first...
Princeton has a most perfect system of faculty espionage over the students. Students must obtain a vote of the faculty to enter, must present certificates of good moral character, and must sign a pledge not to join or attend the meetings of any secret society. No class meeting can be held without obtaining the consent of the class officer and making known to him the business to be transacted...
...small sign in the gallery at Memorial requesting visitors to remove their hats has been replaced by a larger and more conspicuous notice to the same effect, immediately at the top of the stairway...
Every junior ought to make a special effort to be present at the coming class dinner. Those who remember the enjoyable dinner of last year ought certainly to need no further urging to make them sign the book at Bartlett's. Aside from all considerations of mere conviviality, however, the men of eighty-six should spare no efforts to make a success of the dinner, if for no other reason than that it has been several years since a junior class has met with anything but failure in its attempts to hold a class dinner...