Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week in some particularly favored "kneipe," where the most palatable beer can be had. Some of these clubs appoint a "praeses" or president for a year, others for a university term, and still others for a period of a few weeks. The main duty of the president consists in keeping order at the festive board and in calling for a "salamander." This mysterious ceremony is repeated several times of an evening. The president who sits at the head of the table...
This Cremation, then, was an annual ceremony performed by the sophomores about the middle of May in which the principal thing was the burning of some book which the class had finished that term. As the book chosen was always one that the men had found difficult to master, there was general rejoicing at its destruction, although everything was conducted with a great show of solemnity. The students composing the funeral procession began to assemble about eight o'clock in the evening of the day appointed, all wearing caps and gowns; the coffin containing the doomed book was borne...
...great activity in athletic matters at Cornell, nearly three hundred men being at work in the gymnasium. This year the winter meeting will bring out a number of good men, who will be selected to compete in the inter-collegiate field day sports, which come off at Utica next term...
...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 was usually the same night, at some hotel in Boston. Class Day was the last day of the term. The vacation of six weeks commenced at once, and Commencement came immediately after vacation. There had gradually grown up, however, by the side of Valedictory Day a new custom of dancing around the Liberty Tree, (the present class tree). As soon as dinner was over, all the undergraduates began...
...regard to the character of the paper for the ensuing term we will only say that we shall do our best to make the CRIMSON as truly a Harvard newspaper as possible. Special endeavors will be made to have reports of sports and games complete and accurate. We hope that the college at large will give us their hearty co-operation, and we shall welcome communications from all members of the university. It is the desire of the CRIMSON to represent as far as possible the sentiment of the college...