Word: semis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While we have been encountering the Promenade, Harvard has been undergoing her semi-annual examination. It's about six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. - [Yale...
...annual dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi society was held last night in Boston. The Alpha Delta Phi is the oldest and one of the most honorable of the college Greek-letter societies. Established in 1832, it celebrated its semi-centennial last year. It is established in about twenty of the leading colleges of the country, and numbers among its members who take an active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than...
...short, Yale has concealed in her bosom a poet whose fame should be heralded abroad. Where he came from we do not know, - poets, they say, are born, not made, but this poet, we think, must, like the semi-heroine of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," never have been born at all, but merely "growed." Where he is going to, can, perhaps, be easier told. He will write one more effusion, and, then - well, if he lived in Massachusetts, Danvers would then claim...
Accompanying the semi-annuals another affliction visits the college in the shape of those well-known vendors of Havana cigars. The methods of these vagabonds and imposters are familiar to most men, who need not be warned against their thieving deceptions, but there are doubtless a number of freshmen and others whom it may be well to warn. For the benefit of these we will say that if any picturesque looking foreigners who speak nothing but Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars...
...likely that the semi-annual examination in Latin V. will be almost entirely at sight...