Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About 6000 friends of the tony 7th regiment gathered in the vast armory this evening to witness the 10th annual games between members of the regiment. The games began with a pistol shot at 8, and thereafter, until toward midnight, the sound of the pistol scared the air with admirable frequency and persistence. The games were all well conducted, and some of the events were exciting, notably the bicycle races and the mile walk, but the greatest interest centred on the tug-of war. In this, three colleges were represented - Harvard, Columbia and the City of New York. Yale...
...city of New York men were uniformly light, and McElven, the anchor, the smallest and slightest of the four. The Columbia men were middle-weight. At the sound of the pistol, Both teams fell like lead to the floor, with Columbia slightly in the advantage. For an instant the red ribbon at the middle of the rope failed to budge, and then it just peered out of the snap on the Columbia side. At the end of the first minute Columbia had just about half an inch, and, although the City of New York's boys pulled sturdily, and their...
...assure you, to me it does not seem so unimportant. We have here in college a praise-worthy zeal in preserving quiet and order; but we also take a curious way to apply it. For instance, all disturbances in a private room are instantly checked, the moment the sound thereof reaches the precise proctor's ear, and woe betide the man who by some ill fate occupies a room directly over the proctor. But what a contrast to this is presented where any body of the students, notably a certain sophomore society, may with impunity wake the echoes...
...behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, than that all her sons in the coming time, standing on the vantage ground already gained, shall make their lives as honorable, as conspicuous and beneficent to mankind as those who laid the foundations here, in devotion to learning and pure religion, to sound morals and to upright statesmanship...
...that gathered at the north door, were admitted ten minutes before the service began. Before the rest had entered the standing room of the chapel was exhausted and the door was forced shut in spite of the pressure from the outside. The Anniversary Choir, with its magnificent volume of sound, again took part in the service. The hymn "Machet die Thore Weit" opened the service, and the reading of Psalm 143 by Rev. F. G. Peabody was followed by the anthem, "All Glory, Laud and Honor." Then followed Arthur Foote's beautiful composition, "Into the Silent Land," which was composed...