Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glee club; which now, hoarse with cheering, begins to sing the Yale anthem, with laudatory verses to '88, '87, '86 and '85; all egotistic references to freshman exploits being received with howls of derision by the upperclassmen. This song leads to others, and long after the darkness has shut down on the city, the freshmen remain seated on their cherished fence, discoursing sweet music, till the hour arrives for going to the freshman banquet. Such is the reward they earn for defeating a Harvard team; may the next freshman class be forced to relinquish their fence and their laurels...
...home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this seems to be the only resort for those who wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there...
...affirmatively. Indeed so clearly are the answers affirmative that it may almost seem absurd that the questions were asked at all. Every man who has had even a slight experience in college, provided, of course, he has not so closely locked the doors of his own being as to shut out all possible influence around him, must feel himself benefitted and elevated. Those benefits resulting directly from study or intellectual work of any sort are not here referred to. Their influences are more on the mind than on the self and the character...
...selected by lot, will be sold to members of the senior class at $11 a package. Each yard ticket will admit a gentleman and two ladies. Heretofore yard tickets have been unlimited, but this year the committee has decided unanimously to limit the number, in order to shut out, if possible, many objectionable persons who have in years past been present in large numbers on class day evenings. Seniors in the Scientific school, and past members of the class now in college must apply at the same time as the regular seniors. Members of the graduating classes...
...remained in Cambridge, and a procession was at once formed, headed by the band. Amid a blaze of red and green fire, and the flashing of Roman candles the column marched up to the main entrance of the yard, only to find that the gates had been shut against them. Baffled, but not discouraged, the men counter-marched, steadily keeping up the refrain of "Yale men say," and disbanded in front of Holyoke. A rush was made for the yard, where singing and cheering was started, interrupted by occasional calls for a "bonfire." No bonfire was forthcoming, however...