Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clock the Yard will be roped off to prepare for the illuminations, and after this time no one will be admitted without a ticket, and all carriages will be excluded. Between 5 and 8 o'clock the students will entertain their friends at "spreads" and "teas...
WILLIAM N. SWIFT,SIGOURNEY BUTLER,AMORY ELIOT,ROBERT S. MINOT,WILLIAM FARNSWORTH.A liberal number of tickets for admission to the Yard, and of invitations to the President's Reception, and to Memorial Hall will be furnished to all the graduates of the year for themselves and friends, and no gentleman will be admitted to either of these places without a ticket. No wagon or carriage of any description will be admitted to the College Yard after 5 o'clock...
...maturity. The graduate knows no more about the "Ledger" and "Day Book" than he did before he came to college, and often wishes himself back to the simpler logarithmic tables; he remembers well enough the constitution of the Amphyctyonic Council, but on election day eliminates the electors from his ticket, and votes for President directly (as a Western Professor really did), and then practical politicians call him a "d-n literary fellow." This is the result of his college training! A college-bred man can do better in professional life, where his irregular habits may be tolerated, than in business...
This is the extent of the coalition which the Advocate so loudly decries; but why should it be regarded more detrimental to an open election for men, non-society and society, to unite in supporting a certain ticket, than for men inside a society to unite in doing the same thing? That there was a "coalition" between the members of the Pudding, not to mention persons outside of it, is evident from the facts, first, that before the meeting several Pudding men, in one case as many as four, were nominated by Pudding men for the same office; and, secondly...
...that I might be aided in my reform by the elevating influence of society. The conductor on the car passed me by in collecting the fares. Usually I could not be better pleased than by cheating the conductor; but upon this occasion I stepped up and gave him my ticket. A Sophomore called out aloud, "Freshman." A mucker whispered audibly, "Guess he stole it, so anxious to get rid of it." But I did not care what a Sophomore or a mucker thought. I was rather pleased that such characters had so poor an opinion of me. I was cordially...