Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officers of Delta Upsilon for the ensuing term are as follows: President, L. A. Coolidge, '83; vice president, R. B. Wilcox, '83; secretary, V. C. Alderson, '85; treasurer, J. B. Wilson...
...dormitory will be opened for occupation at the begining of the spring term, in April. H. A. Garfield has been elected to the Athenoeum board. The Christmas vacation of three weeks will begin the 19th...
...Freeman was surprised at the resemblance between England and America, whereupon some of the English journals remarked that English ideas had been slowly spreading in the United States, at least in New England, and others said that, on the contrary, England was becoming Americanized - or, to use a synonymous term, going to the dogs. We have noticed one similarity of late that seems to favor the latter view. When, on the evening of the late State election in Massachusetts, large crowds were assembled in Boston in front of the screens on which the latest returns were cast by the lime...
...approach of the end of the term has brought with it some social events. The juniors held a very successful german recently and the sophomores are to have one this week. The three upper classes usually hold three during the year...
...Baggatiway" was the Indian name of this game - "a manly exercise," as an old traveller calls it. Lacrosse, "the cross," was the name given it by some Jesuit missionary whose religious zeal was far greater than his sense of the resemblance between things. It seems that when the term lacrosse was substituted for baggatiway "Poor Lo" was becoming an antiquated personage, a thing of the past; it was only when the noble red man was overcome by poor whiskey and too much religion, then we find lacrosse used to signify any thing else than the symbol of Christianity. Writers...