Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...season is now advancing, and the football men are settling down to their work in preparation for the spring matches, it may be well at this time to look back upon their achievements in the past and consider their claims upon us for support in the career which they hope to enter upon...
...extraordinary religious revival which was started in England by Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The former College was the first in which religious enthusiasm showed itself, and the movement still retains such force there that a recent observer is said to have counted nine prayer-meetings in progress at one time, in a dormitory or an entry which contained but fourteen rooms. A Rev. Dr. Taylor, soon after the revival had begun at Princeton, addressed the Yale undergraduates, and aroused in them an enthusiasm which the labors of two missionaries from Princeton and of some of the more ardent Christians among...
...present Freshman class is so large that if it forms in a single ring, during the Class-Day exercises about the tree, it will interfere with the seats erected for the ladies. At the same time, if a single class were permitted to form two rings, and to occupy two fifths instead of one fourth of the attention of the assembled company, a distinction utterly inconsistent with the democratic principles of the community would be made in its favor. The Class-Day Committee, therefore, finding themselves in a dilemma of which neither horn promises to afford general satisfaction, have been...
This would thoroughly alter the old character of this part of the Class-Day programme. At the exercises about the tree all the undergraduates assembled for the first and last time. They ran about; fought for hats, caps, canes, and flowers; knocked each other down; cheered for pretty much everything that the Chief Marshal could think of; and finally separated with feelings of triumph or of rage, as they carried away trophies or bruises. Among the participants in this annual rush, the Freshmen have always been prominent. Their youthful enthusiasm has led them to run about, and to fight...
...borrowed certain sums of money from a man named Sanderson at the moderate interest of 300 per cent. As Linklater lived very fast, and as his allowance was moderate, he was unable to pay Sanderson's account when it was presented. The matter was allowed to rest for some time, and finally Linklater showed a disposition to break his agreement, on the ground that he was a minor at the time he made it. Sanderson thereupon alleged that he had distinctly stated that he was of age when he contracted the loan, and prosecuted him for obtaining money under false...