Word: summerizes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...came to pass one summer night...
...customary challenge from Yale for a series of games to be played during the coming summer has been received. At a meeting of the Harvard Nine, held subsequent to its reception, it was decided to accept the challenge, in so far as to acknowledge our desire to meet the Yale Nine in a series of games; but the fixing of the days on which each individual game shall take place was left till some future time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years...
...jollity and dash of Cambridge life, is the fact that students themselves often indulge in descriptions of such marvellous adventures of the Freshman and Sophomore years that the credulous are struck with admiration and the timid with fear. An instance of this was brought to our notice last summer while visiting at a little country town in Pennsylvania, where, at a single evening gathering, we obtained more information about college jokes and scrapes than had come to us during a two years' previous residence at Cambridge. The reason of this was, that, shortly before our arrival, a respected classmate...
...consider honestly your own case as well. Do you say you don't believe any such thing, that there is nothing of the Jim-Fisk in you? Stop and think, - you, I mean! Ah yes, now you remember, when you were spending a few days last summer with your grandmother, (bless her dear old heart!) how, when she introduced you to all the neighbors, as it was her pride and delight to do, you would greet them with a good-natured condescension, and inquire with solicitude after the sheep and the crops; make the greatest display of your shallow agricultural...
...colleges as large as some of our Western institutions in Turkey and the Sandwich Islands, and where there is a college there must be a paper. We suggest Calcutta, or, if the weather is too warm, St. Petersburg, and only await our editorial free pass to go there next summer...