Word: south
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from the commencement exercises, began in 1811. For many years, however, the day was called Valedictory Day, and it was not until 1838 that the modern Class Day properly originated. The custom previous to 1838 was for the senior class to meet in the morning in one of the south rooms in University, and listen to a religious service conducted by their own chaplain (a member of the class). They then marched in procession to the president's (Wadsworth) house, and escorted him to the chapel (Holden) where were prayers, oration, poem, and class ode, as now. The class supper...
...soon after the college was built, and has probably been hanging in the basement of the building for nearly 100 years. About the year 1854 some of the students, as a joke on the faculty, took the bell down and sent it to the students of the South Carolina College at Columbia, who forwarded it to the Oglethorpe University in Georgia, whence it was shipped to Macon and was there lost sight of for several years; but it was finally found and restored to its former place in the basement of the college building, where it has hung ever since...
...cryed "tyme." Ye players rested. After foure pales of warme milk drawn from ye udders of certaine kine possessed by ye widowe Hariss had bene drunke ye playe was againe spoken by Master P. Atte ye said worde a lusty Yayle man with a wrapped foote advanced to ye south pole by ye hene coop of neighbore Bowene, and placed ye sphaer benethe hys belley on ye grounde. Ye maids and matrons clapped ye palms and ye youthes of Harvarde spoke despitefully to Master P. Ye men of Yayle caste ye balle between ye upright poles and laughed boysterously. Againe...
...following universities confer the degree of A. B. without any knowledge of Greek. Dalhousie college, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Oregon, Randolph-Macon College, South Carolina college, and Swarthmore College...
...Hamilton, '87. has written an essay on the "Reasons for the Coming of the Pilgrims" for the Old South prize. It will soon be published in book form...