Word: threes
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Alward L. S., was defeated in the semi-finals for the national amateur championship in middle-weight wrestling, at New York, Saturday evening by E. C. Hoskins, of the Schuylkill Navy Club. Hoskins secured the fall in about three minutes and a half...
...three musical clubs will start this evening on the long talked of western trip. It will undoubtedly be enjoyable enough to repay many times over all the time spent in practising. But the pleasure which the members of the clubs themselves will derive from the trip is unimportant when compared with that which they will afford to the graduates in the cities visited. In this lies the very benefit of the tour. The presence of Harvard undergraduates cannot fail to call back the memories, of their own college days, and revivify their interest in the welfare of almamater...
...deal with the refusal of the Faculty to delay registration, the unfounded rumor about the Mott Haven games, the New England rule, the approbation of the graduates in Harvard's athletic victories, the rumored appointment of a new professor of Political Economy and also discuss certain features of the three years' plan. The Advocate doubts, as many do, the wisdom of the New England rule in athletics. Particularly in the case of the Mott Haven games the rule should yield because New York is the only central point of reunion for most of the colleges forming the Intercollegiate Association...
This week Stuart Robson completes his engagement at the Tremont with the presentation of A. D. Gordon's new American comedy in three acts, "Is Marriage a failure?" It is an effective protest against illti-med interference by father-in-law and mother-in-law in the domestic economies of young married life. The comedy abounds in the heartiest kind of fun. The pathos is all in one scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows...
...those days absences were announced in Latin every Saturday and excuses were given in Latin. Common excuses were semel aegrotavi, bis invalui, detentus ab amicis, exoppido and tintinnabulum non andivi. One freshman, charged with three absences, replied: "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with...