Word: greetings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most noticeable feature is the Gothic tower rising one hundred and fifty feet from the low lying building that surround it. One of the curious customs of the college, handed down from remote times, is that early Mayday morning the choir ascend to the top of the tower and greet the rising sun with a hymn...
...feature in the programme were several student songs from the German, which it is to be hoped will become popular. There has for some years past been a notable lack of new college songs. The same ones were sung year after year by the Glee Club. We therefore greet these fresh ones with pleasure, and hope that this stimulus from the Germans will call forth activity in song making among our own students. If men are to be found who are able to write new words and new music there is certainly a music-loving public of students who will...
...said this spring that we had no chance for the Mott Haven cup; that the freshman nine was doomed; that Columbia would leave us by many lengths, etc., etc. Naturally men of this stamp sometimes prophesy correctly, and then the chorus of "I told you sos" with which they greet us is nauseating to the last degree. When they make a mistake, instead of preserving a discreet silence, they croak about the next event in which the college is interested...
...hope that the interest as well as the importance of the subject will attract a large audience to greet Prof. Lyon tonight. Any person who neglects this rare opportunity can not fail to regret it afterward...
...first thing to greet us, as we come back from the Christmas vacation, is the Harvard Index as tastefully gotten up as ever. The Index has become one of the institutions of the college, and is always comprehensive and reliable. After looking over the book and noticing the valuable additions, nobody will be disposed to withhold the indulgence for delay, which the compiler asks in his preface...