Word: took
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball...
...business of the Convention then took a moral turn, and a committee of three - Thayer, Whitridge, and Hartwell - were appointed by the chair to stop pool-selling at the regatta. The next vote, as showing that all colleges are unanimously resolved to row as gentlemen, and to avoid all professional tricks or any dealings with professionals, was the most important one passed during the day. It was introduced by Mr. Moses, of Cornell, and reads as follows...
...Class Supper of the Sophomores took place at the Parker House on Friday, the 21st ult. All the arrangements of the committee seemed perfect. The banquet was spread in the room of mirrors, and nothing could be more brilliant or suggestive of good cheer than the scene presented as the company took their seats. The committee had provided for what they considered an extraordinary number of plates; but fifteen or twenty more names having been handed in at the last moment, it became unfortunately necessary to provide for them in an adjoining room. These, however, later in the evening, were...
...that the State shall assume this burden, which is a comparatively light one when we consider the sums annually wasted in corrupt and useless schemes. We are happy to say that the Legislature, although the same body that passed the prohibitory law and refused to annul the Sumner resolutions, took a sensible view of this matter at least, and granted $ 50,000 to the Museum...
...render the performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months with pardonable pride. Still, many were not satisfied, and it was not long before the one thing needful took definite shape in the minds of all. What interest or even dignity could attach to a society whose members sat dangling their legs over wooden benches, and the location of whose president, even, suggested nothing more dignified than a proctor eager in the pursuit after "cribs" at a Freshman examination...