Word: van
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...van. Her representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...
...appropriate, the representatives of the College Press followed this symbol of their handicraft. The CRIMSON led the van in the following order...
...might prove interesting to compare an article by Henry Van Brunt in the latest number of the Atlantic Monthly with Rev. Dr. Brooks article on the same subject in the first number of Monthly...
...appointment of John Joseph Hayes as instructor in elocution for 1886-87; Malverd A. Howe as instructor in surveying and drawing; Frederick Bradley, D. M. D., demonstrator in operating dentistry; in the reappointment of Joseph Ellsworth Waitt, D. M. D., as demonstrator in mechanical dentistry. Frank Lewis Van Cleef, A. B., was appointed a proctor, and Messrs. Green, Shattuck and Lincoln were appointed the auditing committee for the ensuing year...
BOSTON THEATRE. - "Rip Van Winkle...