Word: worde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...procession on Monday a curious lack of uniformity was noted in the gowns worn by the members of the faculty. One peculiar garment greatly resembled an alpaca duster minus the sleeves. While some voluminous robes swept the pavement others crept up to an unseemingly shortness. In a word, there seemed to be no clear distinctive mark by which a member of the faculty could be distinguished as such. This subject has been revived at every Class Day for years, and it again provokes comment when the garments so essential to the proper ceremonies of an academical observance again appear...
...middle ages there was, in truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries, and the orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations of to-day. The word University is often missed or misunderstood. The latin Universitas means nothing more than corporation. Universities are but corporations. There was not any necessary assemblage of brain or wit in one place in order to form an University...
From this ceremony comes the collegiate use of our word Commencement, derived from the French word which was used to designate this initiation of a new master...
...first race the undergraduates caught the water first at the word, and drew ahead about a length, which they managed to keep until the finish. The graduates, however were not satisfied as they were only just getting shaken together, so it was proposed to race back again to the starting point...
...procession was unusually prompt in getting off, the marshals and committee of arrangements deserving all credit for the smoothness with which things ran. At 8 o'clock the word was given to start, and the march began...