Word: semis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire works which were passed back as rapidly as the men could fire them off. A large number of the men were supplied with tin horns and red flags, besides being completely dressed in red. After marching all over the town of New London and going through various semi-military evolutions the procession halted in front of the office of Governor Waller, and after a "three times three" for the governor of Connecticut, listened to a speech which was frequently interrupted by cheers. After complimenting Harvard on her victory, and referring to Gov. Butler, Gov. Waller said...
...commencement day at the university were no longer to be tolerated within the college precincts, has made a commotion among the alumni scarcely less profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum, to provide for their entertainment on commencement day, were no longer...
...will relieve the anxiety of the alumni to learn that the impression conveyed by the semi-official announcement is not altogether correct, and that the college authorities will not undertake to interfere in any way with the entertainment provided at the reunions of the different classes. So the alumni can indulge themselves as of yore, with none to molest or make them afraid. The only change in the programme this year will be the omission of the entertainment usually provided for the graduating class by the class next preceding it; and with this part of the festivities omitted, there...
...University of the City of New York is struggling to obtain $250,000 as a fund to mark the celebration of its semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of an LL. D. from the New York University with a handsome gift to the institution so near which he is to sleep the last long sleep? It would not be creditable to bestow the honor from a mercenary motive, but then Governor Butler is a scholarly man, and he himself has recently...
...possibility that the University of the City of New York will, at commencement, two weeks hence, bestow upon Governor Butler the degree of LL. D., which Harvard denied him. "The university," says the Mail, "is struggling to obtain $250,000 as a fund to mark the celebration of its semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of a LL. D. from the New York university with a handsome gift to the institution, so near which he is to sleep the last long...