Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Across a varied plain that stretches back...
...nine men, one of whom returns to Williams to-day. John Gunster, their last year's stroke and now of the Nassau and Athletic Boat-Clubs, also accompanies them. The crew rows twice a day between ten and one in the morning, and in the afternoon to Watertown and back. This evening at 6.30 they will row over the Union Boat-House Course on time, in their new shell. The crew will return to Williams next week, to pass their annual examinations, and on the 3d of July they expect to go to Saratoga...
...large number of irregular toasts were then proposed and answered, songs were sung, and the company remained long around the table. The occasion will be looked back upon by those who were present as one of the pleasantest features of their college course, and their farewell to the Institute of 1770 will be one of the bright events in the history of the Class...
...Yale Courant has blossomed out in a most gorgeous, patent, back-action poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...
...waves, bear me back my children...