Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...With loudly beating hearts, forty freshmen took up their line of march for Cambridge bridge. There their courage failed. With a feeble cheer for '86, panic-struck, they turned and fled, some boarding a passing Harvard square car, the rest, grimly resolved, returning to brave the terrors of a supper at Young's, and there drown the memory of their sad guilt. Hic jacit the custom of freshman theatre going, not by the hand of prerogative, not as token of failure, but overtaken by old age and debility it dies a natural death...
...were: Rushers - Merrill, Van Schaick, Higgins, Brooks, Ketcham and Cooley; quarter-back, Milliard; half-backs, Green and Holden; full-back, Marble. Mr. Noyes umpired for Harvard and Mr. Bales for Exeter. Mr. Reed of Lawrence acted as referee. At the close of the game the Harvard eleven was tendered supper by the Exeter...
...Guerndale's rooms are familiar to us all. Little Billy Bixby, with his propensities for poker and mixed drinks, is well known to us, and Hackett is an old although unpleasant acquaintance. The account of the Bacchanalian revel in Randolph's room is strongly suggestive of a class supper...
...Columbia men during the day. During the day the Columbia men were met twice by the Harvard crew, both being in launches at a wharf at the same time, and as Columbia offered no explanation of any kind, Harvard supposed that they still stood by their decision. Therefore, after supper, the crew disbanded, owing to the understanding that there would be no race. If Mr. Watson gave the race to Columbia, understanding that the hour for the race was fixed for half-ebb tide, and that there had been no subsequent agreement changing the hour, Harvard admits that Mr. Watson...
...senior class formed in procession, and after marching to music about the campus, took their way down into the city, attended with cheering and fireworks, to attend the class supper. On their return, about daybreak, the excitement was renewed about the college grounds by yelling and cheering, and the seniors then resorted to the ball ground for the usual annual game of base-ball played between scrub nines on this occasion. Some remarkable playing and curious antics were indulged in, as may be expected, and the class then gradually dispersed to rest and quietude...