Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seven o'clock, as the train was nearing the Mississippi, Leighton, '88, came aboard and detailed the programme for the stay in St Louis. That very evening there was to be an informal reception at the University Club: next day, the clubs were to take luncheon at the St. Louis Club through the kindness of Davis, '89, then the concert in the evening and, last of all, the Imperial ball. The programme was fully carried...
...rises upon the deck of the pirate ship, with the pirate crew scattered about, engaged in the apparently peaceable occupations of ordinary seamen. This scene is very realistic and most tastefully arranged. The pirate captain arrives with Constance, who is presently followed by her companion, Cherry, who has come aboard to be near her mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after...
...three-hour ride arrived at New London at three o'clock, Saturday. There they found the craft named "Cecile," a mixture of boat, steamer and ruin, waiting to carry them five miles up river to the quarters. The three large shells and numerous small ones were hastily put aboard the boat and all was ready in an hour, when it was advised that the baggage be also put aboard. On examination it was found that the trunks and valises had all gone across the river on the ferry, and so the "Cecile" laboring under the heavy load, steamed across...
...began turning a windlass in the middle of the floor. The scow began slowly moving along a submerged cable, and at the end of a couple of minutes bumped up against the side of the receiving ship, "Wabash." "All out!" sung out the marine, the party jumped ashore, - or aboard - and the scow returned to the shore. Up a flight of stairs they went a trifle doubtful as to whether they would be loaded with irons and sent below, or treated like brothers and welcomed on board. However, on the "historian's" bland request that they might be allowed...
...already gathered. At half-past twelve the Wm.Sprague, with the referee, press representatives, and 'varsity crew and nine on board left the bridge and steamed up to the railroad bridge at Brookline, followed by the Elsie, flying the yellow and black pennant of the sophomores, the Mattie Sargent, aboard which the freshmen were assembled under their red and white colors, and the Curlew, upon which was a large party of undergraduates and ladies. Upon reaching the bridge the party whiled away the inevitable long interval between the time announced for the start and the actual appearance of the crews...