Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bangers carried by a Yale freshman in the parade on Washington's birthday measured eighteen inches in circumference...
...Yale senior class have chosen their committees for the festivities of commencement week as follows: Promenade committee, Richard, Bates, Churchill, Goodlett, Francke, E. C. Smith, J. C. Adams, Brinton and Stiles; class-day committee, MacElroy, Goodwin, Heiller, Washington, Davis and Hyde; supper committee, Hord, Wing, Anderson, Morgan, Griggs; ivy committee, Dickey, E. L. Smith and Dutcher; cup committee, Arkell, E. L. Lambert, Sewall...
Those who expected that tickets to Monday night's lecture sent through the mail would be delivered were sadly mistaken, owing to the anniversary of George Washington's birth and the closed post-office...
...disrespect to the memory of the Father of his Country is easily explained. It is simply a natural consequence of that conservatism illustrated by compulsory prayers and the rising bell. When the college was founded there was no necessity for such a celebration, owing to the unfortunate fact that Washington was yet unknown. Therefore, as it became the custom not to observe the day, it has not been, and probably never will be, observed. So much we are indepted to our sometime conservative rulers...
...effort is being made at Washington, to pass a law reducing the postage on all college catalogues and publications, together with those of missionary societies, to the pound rate, making it about one sixth of the present cost. - Yale News...