Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Class Day seems in danger of losing its exclusive and private character, and threatens to become a general holiday. People living near the College make it a day for entertaining their friends. An exceptional case has been brought to the attention of the Committee, where a member of a lower class refused to give up his room for Class Day on the ground that he himself would entertain on that day. Tickets have sometimes been sold at open sale. The Yard is often controlled by a crowd in which the class has no interest. In view of these facts...
...fortunate than Eighty-two in combining good acting with excellent singing, nor can we praise too highly the trouble that has been taken to make these performances a success. The Boat Club is really in need of the money that will be cleared, as the subscriptions have been somewhat lower than usual this year, and the additional expense of running the steam-launch will have to be provided for. The friends of the College, who have shown their interest in the undergraduates by taking tickets, are to be heartily thanked, and it is to be hoped that this custom...
...that Mr. L. E. Myers, the wonderful runner of the Manhattan Athletic Club in New York, is to turn professional, is, we are happy to state, entirely without foundation. Mr. Myers at present holds the American record at 220 yards, 1/4 mile, 8 1/2 miles running, and will doubtless lower them all still further in some of the approaching spring sports...
...editorial on Class Nines in a recent issue of the Crimson, and the generous offer by the Advocate of a pennant, to be competed for in a series of games, has been effectual in awakening considerable interest in base ball in the three lower classes. The Seniors held last Monday a meeting of those interested in this subject; but, as only four gentlemen were present, they adjourned. The general lack of interest evinced by the small attendance at this meeting has compelled the Seniors to abandon the project of competing for the prize. Eighty-one from the beginning has shown...
...lower rooms in Hollis cease to burn...