Word: batons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual business meeting of the Glee Club on Monday, the following officers for the ensuing year were elected: President, W. H. Baldwin, '85; vice president, A. G. Mason, '86; secretary, E. Howard, '85; treasurer, W. H. Edgerly, '86. At this meeting a valuable baton was presented with appropriate remarks by the president, Mr. Eliot, in behalf of the club, to Mr. Osborne, in recognition of his efficient and faithful services as leader during the past year...
...dude, to go to Harvard and be "culchawed," or to be burned upon the altar. At the mention of the first fate the goat trembled visibly and desired rather any other doom, and he preferred death to Harvard. Then the executioner fell upon him savagely with a heavy baton. He was beaten to death, and being disemboweled, was found to have fed himself on "pony leaves" like any other student. Then the body was cast upon the funeral pyre and cremated, while the victors sang an exultant song...
When Prof. Paine took the director's baton Sunday evening, at the dress rehearsal of the OEdipus, the orchestra looked upon him as an intruder who had no right to give them directions. When, however, Mr. Chadwick, the director said, "Mr. Paine, the composer, gentlemen," he was greeted with round after round of applause. During the whole rehearsal he gave the chorus such advice as only a composer could give...
...vicinity was not thronged as usual with students in their most ragged attire, and with spectators; but ere long the sound of drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major, or grand-marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, followed by two students; the elegist, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks cropped so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers, six pall-bearers, with a six-foot coffin on their shoulders. They looked poverty-stricken: their hats, with rims torn...