Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Class Day of seventy-six : I say seventy-six advisedly, for the one alteration in the ceremonies that was made by that class seems to me to have been a wise one. We must admit, however much we may dislike the prevalent cant about dignity, that the old rushes between the Sophomores and the Freshmen added nothing to the pleasure of the spectators, and excited nothing but disgust in the minds of those who turned their eyes from the tree to the howling mob of undergraduates. The Seniors' rush for flowers is not wholly unconnected with sentiment, is not brutal...
...simple : the oration and poem have been a part of Class Day as long as there has been a Class Day. Every one knows what to expect of them, and year after year it has been impossible to supply with tickets all those who would like them. The rush at the Chapel door, after the Seniors have gone in, has become historic. Surely it cannot be the general opinion that this part of the day only bores...
...Freshmen carried themselves nobly in the rush with the Sophomores...
...same week. Highly gratified by this pleasing announcement, I go to lunch, to be entertained with the eternal talk about J. Cook and the Boston Transcript, the same remarks that I have heard every day for a week. By this time I am pretty well disgusted with life, and rush away from lunch to cool my body and my temper with a sherbet at Belcher's. Here I am met by a classmate, who talks about the war in Turkey. What do I care about Turkey? The other day I thought I ought to take some interest...
...some years influences tending to materially change the nature of Class Day have been at work. With the increase of numbers in the classes came the abolishment of the rush around the tree; then the tree exercises themselves were attacked severely by those who thought all such exhibitions boyish in the extreme; the office of chaplain was dropped or resumed at the pleasure of the particular class; and each year has made more evident the fact that Class Day is enjoyable, not because of its literary exercises, or because of its class-tree exercises, but because of the social enjoyment...