Word: unions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nomine, for it amounts to the same things - in borrowing from their friends. Between the two the Westchesterites had a happy time, and no mistake. Sometimes the same band would be Cow-boys one week, and Skinners the next, helping themselves to everything, now in the name of the Union, and now in that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across...
...effected this year, and Harvard to appear but once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like the celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...
...Memorial Hall will, when completed, contain the following inscription in Hebrew: The day is short, the reward is great, the laborers are few, the Master urges." It will be set in the slate, blue on red ground, with gilt marks of accent and gilt stars, and other ornamentation. - Union Spectator...
OXFORD has vanquished Cambridge in foot-ball. There are 2, 537 students in the University of Cambridge. The Oxford Union decided against female suffrage by a vote of 51 to 17. In Cambridge, That in case of any decided action on the part of Russia and Austria with regard to the partition or reconstruction of Turkey, it is a paramount and national necessity for England to take possession of the Suez Canal," was decided by a vote of 40 to 2; the only speaker against being Mustafa Ben Yusaf...
...that they are our friends still, and then rather illogically requests us to "cheer up"! According to the Courant's table, in this fall's athletics, Yale made the best time in four "events," Williams and Pennsylvania University in three, Harvard in two, Tufts in one, while Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Union, Cornell, and Bowdoin were in nothing pre-eminent. We would ask the Courant whether Yale's 252 Freshmen are in the Academic Department alone, or include those in the Scientific School? In the former case, "we accept their apology...