Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Birds and streamlets hail the spring-time, for his power has passed away...
Patient reader, I look forward with you to the time when the virtues of the goody may be extolled by the collegiate muse, and when we shall recognize in the neatness and order of our rooms the beneficent hand of an "efficient" goody...
...Sophomore supper is the only time when the class meets socially, and for this reason each member should feel it his duty to make every exertion to be present. The many who were absent will never know all they missed; while to those who were present, an allusion to the supper will bring up some of the pleasantest memories of their college life...
...members of these castes were called "men," and seem to have had no particular occupations. Many of them spent their time in travelling between Harvard and what must have been an adjoining city; others devoted themselves to "grinding," a term which would seem to imply the presence of some industry, but we find no other traces...
...price of the board was extortionate, and the quality was very poor. The meat was sent from the West to Harvard in barrels. From other sources we learn that the meat was bought of a certain landowner or farmer near a place called Fort Sill. Great corruption at one time prevailed in regard to this meat-supply, and one of the highest officials of the national government was involved...