Word: three-day
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Dates: during 1897-1897
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...than twenty-five per cent who receive so many invitations to spreads that the business of entertaining and being entertained is, for them, exhausting. Granting, for the sake of argument, what is by no means established, that all these men desire a large season of festivity, and that a three-day celebration would be less of a strain than the present one day, we have still to consider the case of the other fifty per cent-the fellows who neither spread nor get more than one or two invitations to the spreads of their more fortunate class-mates. These...
Some of the gentlemen who are opposed to the extension of Class Day over three days do not seem to appreciate the advantages which this arrangement offers to people coming from a distance, to see sons, or nephews or grand-sons graduate. The older folk generally want to stay for Commencement as well as Class Day and under the old regime they are obliged to fill the aching void between Friday and Wednesday as best they can. The three-day scheme, beginning of necessity on Friday, since the finals do not end till then, and lasting through Monday, offers...