Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...continued to disgust a crowd of men because he thought it funny, he would be in a very different position. Nor is a young man's failure to make a good speech at a public dinner at all inexcusable, but "funny" allusions to the Faculty as an old hen reflect no credit upon the society which permits them...
...written for the occasion by Charles H. Gage, was afterwards sung; and this was followed by old college songs, which were kept up to a late hour...
...some of the students of Union. Now, who will deny the probability that a handkerchief or ribbon of the hue which is now called magenta was worn at some time by a student during the first two hundred and twenty years of Harvard's existence! Indeed, tradition reports that old John Harvard himself sported a deep crimson kerchief. Where, then, was Union...
...various reasons, the principal of which lie in the complete success which has attended the club system, and in its admirable fitness to our wants. We fail to see any sufficient inducement to make us abandon a system so plainly satisfactory to all, and recur to an old method of forming crews, which every one has been very glad to see given up. On each club crew all classes are generally well represented, and no other system is able to bring out such uniformly good crews, or arouse such general interest in the result. Class crews involve more or less...
...Old and New for March contains the beginning of a series of articles entitled, "A Hundred Years ago," which will form a most interesting chronicle of the events whose centennial anniversaries are approaching. Trollope's serial is continued. Mr. Scudder has a most ingeniously absurd story; and "The Class of '71," "The Fort Fisher Expedition," and some mediocre poetry fill up the number...