Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expenses the first year. The result, however, more than justified his venture. Over two hundred pupils were gathered, and the session was most profitable and interesting. Great praise is due to Prof. Montague for the admirable corps of teachers selected by him. With such instruction as came from the veteran Dr. Heness, originator of the "Natural Method," from the delightful Prof. Zuelling, and others of almost equal genius for teaching, study was but play.-Student...
...Hall Headed by a band graduates in front. Headed by a band of music the alumni to the number of seven hundred marched to Memorial Hall, where the dinner was served. The Rev. John F. Moors invoked a blessing and a psalm was sung under the leadership of the veteran John Langdon Sibley. President Russell of the alumni then began the speaking, and he was followed by Pres. Eliot, Gov. Robinson. '56, Prof. Jebb, Prof. Newcomb, Prof. Child, Judge Holmes, Newcomb, Prof. Child, Judge Holmes, Thomas Cushing, '34, S. A. Eliot, '84, and Col. Henry Lee. The closing ceremony...
...Saturday afternoon we were favored with a visit from the whole Columbia University, and had a very pleasant talk with them. Among the rest we noticed the familiar face of Mr. Reckhart, the veteran of the crew, and who, with his hundred and ninety 1bs. vastly overtops any of the rest of the crew. On Sunday the monotony of the quarters was broken by a visit to Mr. Hammond, on his hospitable invitation. thanks to Mr. Hammond and Dr. Borland, life at the quarters has been thus pleasantly varied on Sundays for the last two or three years. What everyone...
...Cook, the veteran Yale oarsman, and Mr. Hull, captain of last year's Yale crew, visited the boat-house yesterday...
...flaxen-haired Gretchen who served you that pretzel and that last glass of beer, when, on a sudden your meditations are rudely dispersed and your thoughts brought to earth again. Looking up, you find you have brushed against a man who appears for all the world like a battered veteran of the wars, but whom, by his cap, dress, spectacles and other insignia, you recognize at length as a German student. His face is scarred and seamed, it may be that part og one ear is gone ; certainly his appearance is redoubtable. The apology which rose to your lips, however...