Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large crowd, including a considerable number of students, had assembled, who listened with interest to the oration, addresses, music, etc., which made up the programme. When all was over, the noise in the streets began again, and it was not till the veterans and escort had marched all around the yard that quiet was restored and the toiling student forgot, except for the extra number of loose muckers struggling about, that the day was known to all but him as Memorial...
...brass band paraded the principal streets. It was composed of thirteen devils grotesquely dressed, and the remainder of the class in white robes bearing transparencies. A grand funeral car drawn by four horses contained the imaginary corpse. In the middle of the campus the fire was erected, around which a circle was formed, and the remains were burned to ashes amid lugubrious prayers and orations...
...improvements around the Jefferson Physical Labratory are nearly completed...
...opportunity for each to show all the skill he could command in managing the frail crafts. The first event was the sailing race, in which six men entered. The breeze made things very lively at the start, but the canoes got off pretty well together. The rough water around Union boat-honse bothered the contestants considerably, and soon three of them dropped out. Dunham took the lead at the first stake boat and maintained it to the end, making the last mile in 8 minutes. Rand crossed the line 12 minutes after, and Frothingham 10 minutes later. The second event...
...Jarvis field to play off the annual championship game in the lacrosse series. The day was very warm and seemed more like the middle of July than the end of June. About three o'clock a fair sized audience, including a considerable sprinkling of ladies, had assembled on and around the field, and at about twenty minutes past the hour the ball was faced. Roundy drew the ball out of the scrimmage and sent it towards Yale's goal. Next, it came quickly back towards Harvard's defence, but was rushed out and kept in the air flying back...