Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appears that the bone of contention was the inequality of the length of the boats. Harvard's was about five feet longer than Yale's. A start with the bows on a level would cause each Yale man to be behind the corresponding Harvard man, causing the former much inconvenience, while if at the start, the sterns were even, and the decision rendered according to the bows, Yale's course would be diminished five feet. - [Deleware College Review...
...occupy a conspicuous place in the history of academic insurrections. It originated in the displeasure of the boys at the expulsion of one of their number, and before it was finally quelled a detachment of forty policemen, one of whom was seriously wounded, had to break open the dormitories behind whose barricaded doors the rebels had intrenched themselves. The pupils sent preposterous terms of surrender to their principal, who promptly declined the same, and thereupon expelled and caused to be ejected no fewer than 270 of the refractory students...
...formed two complete political parties in the literary department, to one of which almost every man there belongs. One party, the oldest, publishes the Chronicle; the other, at first started in self defence but now the dominant, controls the Argonaut. Many men take both papers, but the power behind the thorne or the sanctum is the party which holds the most stock...
Appleton Chapel, 7.30 P.M. Rev. C. B. Crane, D. D., of Boston. Text : Isaiah 30 : 21, "A word behind thee...
...Brown, first all students are required to be present at chapel exercises at 8.30 A. M. every morning (except Sunday). Students who reside out of town and come in on trains are permanently excused if the train time causes them to be behind chapel time. Almost any reasonable excuse is allowed, but an excessive absence is not allowed. The unexcused absences carry certain demerits. Chapel exercise is regarded as one of the regular college exercises, and is marked as such. Compulsory Sunday attendance at church is a mere farce. A great number of students have never signified what church they...