Word: timing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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After the Chapel, spreads, dancing, and music on the Green. The number of promenaders was at no time in the afternoon very great, for our poor elms had become prey for the worms many weeks before, and could no longer offer the cool shade they fain would have given the fair strollers beneath. The scene in Lyceum and Massachusetts Halls and in the dormitories was, however, as gay and as bright and as enjoyable as ever. The dancing, the ices, and the flirtation went on till half past five, and then came the grotesque march around the Yard, the hearty...
Every one who knew Mr. Sawyer was greatly shocked at reading in the Journal of Wednesday last the intelligence of this sad accident, which befell him just as he was returning to his college and classmates for the last time. We sincerely hope that he will sufficiently recover from this unfortunate and lamentable accident to come among us once more...
...have we a word to say about the general management of the race. The judges and committees who could not tell which boat won, whether Wesleyan or Amherst was second, the order or time of the last boats, and who left the flag on the western bank to be placed by some third person at the last moment, present a picture of mismanagement too deplorable to need any comment. They were appointed to decide the race, however close; the fact that any of these questions have arisen proclaims their inability to fill the positions assigned them...
...Where time left us, careless and free...
...desire to establish friendly relations with our sister paper has been met in so courteous a manner by the Editors of the Advocate that we feel sure that the present state of feeling will long continue. Should any change of policy, in this regard, be effected at some future time, both journals will surely feel the contempt of the whole college world. Once more thanking our readers, we wish them a most pleasant vacation...