Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from his bed and given the pump bath. He was caused to mount his table and entertain his visitors with unspontaneous oratory, narrative and song. All these acts of discipline were performed, if not with acquiescence by the faculty, certainly with impunity...
...killed i' the capital." It is recorded that Queen Elizabeth attended amateur performances of the students at Oxford and at Cambridge, and was highly pleased with the endeavors of the striplings. At that time it was the custom, when any distinguished personage paid a visit to the Universities, to entertain him in royal style, and the representation of some old play was always a prominent feature of the entertainment...
When we consider that the students of some colleges entertain their townsmen with a celebration of this kind, we may look with a different face upon the celebrations which are sometimes held in honor of our athletic victories. Yet we are glad to see that these childish exhibitions are becoming more and more uncommon. A few years ago cremations and kindred celebrations were the rule and not the exception at many colleges; now, however, they are decidedly the exception. Brown college was the last to give up this absurd custom. At a meeting of the juniors last week the "majority...
Preparations have been made at Princeton to entertain our nine and the men who accompany...
...boat-house to watch the different crews at their work on the river. Eight men in a boat, moving backward and forward with machine-like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that it would be rash to prophesy any order in which they will come in. The crew which, during the next week, makes the greatest improvement...