Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June number of the Beacon, the Boston University publication, contains some very amusing statistics of the class of eighty-six. Following are some of the headings into which it is divided: Future Occupation, Politics, Color Eyes, Color Hair, Size Hat, Beard, Patron Saint, Dance, No. of Plucks and Matrimonial Prospects. As Boston University is a co educational institution, one can readily conceive the supreme interest concentrated in these tables...
...considerable angle, therefore a correct idea of the finish can not be obtained from them. That there was open water between the two crews is denied by a gentleman on the referee's tug, prominent in rowing matters; also by the testimony of several spectators on the Beacon St. wall, where the best idea of the finish could be obtained. All these persons agree in saying that the '88 boat was between 3 4 and a length ahead...
...clear sky looked down upon the Charles River yesterday, and beheld one of the most magnificent races that ever took place on the course. Before twelve o'clock people had began to gather in rear windows on Beacon street, and interested spectators chose favorable positions near the finish and waited. At a quarter of one, three tugs were moored at the drawbridge and rapidly filled. One bore a huge green and white banner, and an enthusiastic body of sophomores clustered on its pilot box; the second was jammed with noisy and excited freshmen, and covered with red and white bunting...
June 2 - Beacon, Cambridge...
...Beacon, Cambridge...