Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...solemnly swear, SOTTO VOCE, "Well, hang...
Many promising young creatures in '82 thought it their duty to come as near as possible to getting dropped; they succeeded as well as do the equally juvenile youngsters who try to come as near getting drowned as they can by walking on thin ice, and some twenty have got a ducking already, and have been put to soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever...
...poorly in an examination, say nothing about it, or you will be set down as a fool. If you do well, say still less, or you will be considered a conceited grind. If you decide to go into athletics, take rowing, for you know it has become popular, and base-ball seems to have been artificially kept alive by graduates of some years back. Don't, at all events, go to the Gymnasium, unless the new one becomes fashionable; some men have lost the First Eight, Nine, or Ten in that way. And next year send in a contribution, - barring...
...series of windows than for these to be the gifts of the older classes of graduates. There would, too, be a peculiar significance in having memorial windows. We hope, however, that the tone of the windows that may follow will be somewhat more cheerful. Would it not be well to place wire-screens over the glass? They are now exposed to danger from hail or from mischievous boys...
...good training of former years, - not to mention the champion single-sculler and several prominent athletes, - this class cannot depart without leaving a large vacancy behind it. Now, however, while the College is still fresh with the memory of these achievements, is the time to look forward, as well as to look back, and to consider how we may equal, if not surpass, the records that '79 has written. The importance of having good captains cannot be overestimated, and it would be well if those who are to fill the responsible positions next year carefully avail themselves of the experience...