Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual dinner of the class of '29 was held Thursday evening at the Parker House. The number of survivors of that class has diminished steadily and rapidly during the past few years, so that of all who graduated only six were left to attend the sixtieth anniversary. Two have died during the past year. Those present Thursday evening were: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, author of the hymn "America"; Rev. Samuel May, class secretary and a prominent abolitionist before the war; Rev. Dr. Stickney, of Royalton, Vt.; Rev. A. S. Devens, of Boston, and Charles Storrow...
...Flagg, captain of this year's Exeter nine, will enter Harvard next year; Stearns, captain of the Andover nine, will enter Amherst...
...course in elocution, and to them the knowledge that Mr. Hayes will resume his courses immediately will be especially welcome. The faculty have decided, however, that in the case of English 10 the recitations shall take place three times instead of twice a week for the balance of the year, and that in consequence the course shall count as a full course. Mr. Hayes will thus be enabled to make up in some measure for lost time, and the students under him will feel as though they could devote more time outside of the recitation room and to their work...
...collegiate athletics. Mr. Finlay has realized that the position of captain of the University crew is one that carries with it too many responsibilities and requires too much technical knowledge and experience to be filled with the best results, at least, by a man who has rowed but one year. Feeling, therefore, that Harvard's chances for a successful crew would be made surer if a more experienced man than he held the position of captain, he has generously resigned from an office than which there is no higher athletic honor in college. We do not doubt that Mr. Finlay...
...winter term at Yale university began Tuesday morning with chapel exercises at 8.30 a. m. Comparatively few students have been dropped; nearly all those who had conditions imposed upon them at the beginning of the year were able to pass Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Hall...