Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring term opened here on the 13th with quite a full attendance for this time of year...
...trustees of Columbia have provided temporary gymnasium accommodations for the college, and in consequence of the expense incurred thereby have withdrawn their annual gift of $200 for college sports. The Spectator suggests the holding of a winter meeting (similar to those at Harvard and Yale) in the gymnasium next term...
...freshmen have appeared this term with Oxford caps, having a tassle of olive green and cardinal red, the green predominating, and appearing as a very appropriate mark of distinction...
...curious illustration of the unstability of all things collegiate as well as worldly, is furnished by the ease of the slang term "James," once in vigorous use at Harvard. but now fallen into complete desuetude. Only two years ago, it was a a common designation for what is now familiarly termed the "Gym." The pun was too ghostly for long life...
...faculty of Dartmouth College have voted to restore to their class at the beginning of the spring term the four sophomores who were concerned in the abduction of a freshman. A member of the faculty stated that their action was entirely independent of the recent petition sent to the board by the freshmen...