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Word: afternoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHITE met candidates for Second-Year Honors in classics this afternoon at three o'clock in U. 16, to explain the conditions on which honors are granted, and to answer any questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

...crew could be effected. In a word, matters looked very "blue." Since then a change has taken place in the state of affairs. Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Crocker have consented to take their old seats in the boat, and Mr. Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates and undergraduates had the satisfaction of seeing the New London crew, with only one change in its complement, pull past the float with the same magnificent stroke that has won them their well-merited reputation. We are expressing the feeling of the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAITERS. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

After these interesting exercises spreads were in order, which were thronged with ladies and their friends all the afternoon. At 5 P. M. the Senior class reassembled, cheered the buildings, and then proceeded to take part in the exercises around the Tree. It is fortunate that the Freshmen were not admitted, as there was not enough room for the Juniors and Sophomores to swing around the tree. "Teas" then followed, and occupied the time until 8 o'clock, when dancing began at Memorial Hall. The Glee Club sang from the steps of Holworthy about 9 P. M., and the "real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »

...celebration will begin at three o'clock on the afternoon of June 5, and will end with a dinner on Thursday afternoon. The oration will be given by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the arrangements are under the direction of Rev. E. G. Porter, all three of whom are graduates of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND ANDOVER. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

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