Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...drag off the extension ladder, breaking the lock in so doing and rendering removal of the ladder impossible. It could only have been raised by six men experienced in its use, however, and there were but two members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke was so dense...
...other colleges, Columbia will probably be the strongest, as Mitchell and Kirby, of last year's team, are both back. Cornell has just been admitted this year, and her team will doubtless be made up of Rathbun, Amsler and Vergauben, who won second place in the last junior tournament. Annapolis will have an entirely new team, as her three men have graduated...
...known that the disease had so far advanced as to make his end near. He himself was planing his return to Cambridge from the Adirondacks, whither he had gone for a change of air when the fatal turn came. Mr. Hicks's mother who had gone to accompany him back was present and the many new friends he had made while there were ready with sympathy and help...
...General W. A. Bancroft '78 will preside, and the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt '80 will speak. Seats will be reserved on the stage for members of the Corporation and Board of Overseers, and former captains of athletic teams. The gallery and all unoccupied space at the back of the hall will be open after the meeting begins to undergraduates. Any Harvard graduate now in a graduate school who desires to join the Association or is interested in the movement will be expected in the body of the theatre. Music will be furnished by the College Band and by the Glee Club...
...presiding officer and will explain the plan proposed. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt '80, will make an address. Seats will be reserved on the stage for members of the corporation and board of overseers, and former captains of athletic teams. The galleries, and all unoccupied space at the back of the hall after the meeting begins, will be open to undergraduates exclusively. Any member of the Graduate Schools who desires to join the association or is interested in the movement, will be expected in the body of the theatre...