Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...snap of many incandescent lights. Fifteen minutes later troops of men came hurrying into the dining room where breakfast was waiting on the table. The train for Cincinnati left at 7.20. During the morning there was the usual amount of sleeping and card playing and it was not till the announcement of dinner at Collumbus that the men really awoke. At 12.15 the train rolled into the station and when it stopped there was not a student aboard. The "flying wedge" worked splendidly at the door of the restaurant and the whole company were soon seated in noisy confusion about...
...success. At half past ten the Deutscher Club opened its doors to the men and received them with a hospitality never to be forgotten. About sixty men sat at a long oak table on which were served true German dishes and beer. Stories and songs gave wings to time till about mid-night when Mr. Sol. Smith Russell came in and took a seat at the table. There was no such thing as time. Mr. Russell and Harvard's funniest man took turns at telling stories and the merriment ceased only when there was sheer incapacity for further laughter. This...
Thursday morning most of the men returned to Chicago. A few however for reasons of their own stayed till Friday. Milwaukee has been having a long series of disasterous fires and many of the members were comforted by the rumor that all the hotels were to be burned Thursday night. Nothing happened however...
...pleasant remembrance to those who first became friends there. After luncheon Mr. Paul du Chaillu, the famous African explorer, entertained the party with stories of his own adventures. A tremendous audience greeted the clubs in the evening- Yale's fence of the night before bore crimson shields till it seemed ready to drop to the stage. After the concert the men changed clothes at the hotel and boarded the train for Buffalo. Up to this time the rails seemed to separate the fellows farther and farther from home; now the rails on which they were hurrying seemed a band uniting...
...clock. Every man in college who can do anything in track athletics is wanted-not only me who have been members of the team but those who have not come out before. There is often a tendency on the part of the old men to delay coming out till late in the season when they rely upon extra hard training to make up for what they have lost in the beginning. New men, as we have remarked before are often diffident about coming out, fearing that they will be of no use in athletics. This should...