Word: betook
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amateur" series of championship games opened right merrily yesterday, when the CRIMSON set the ball rolling, and kept it rolling for nearly three hours. The game was between the "Bessies" and the CRIMSON nine, and so great was the interest in the result that nearly 100 men betook themselves to Jarvis to see the champion nine of last year score its first victory in the present series. The contest was so full of interesting features that it is impossible to record them all. Perhaps what called for most applause was the terrific hitting of the champions, and, next to that...
...rowing men could not have asked for more favorable conditions of wind and water than those which prevailed on Saturday. The air was just warm enough for rowing. The wind hardly ruffled the surface of the river. After the close of recitations at noon, about 200 students betook themselves to the boat-house, and stood in groups along the edge of the platforms or lay at ease upon the runs leading to the floats. Soon after noon the barges were brought out and launched and the men drawn by lot to form the senior eights took their positions. The scene...
...band of the Fifth Connecticut Infantry. The members of the victorious crew came first, followed by the members of the 'Varsity nine, and escorted by 300 students, decked with red ribbons, and provided with brooms. After parading the principal streets, and cheering until worn out, the jubilant Cambridge men betook themselves to the cars, and left the town in peace...
...first bent our steps toward the gymnasium, and on entering found it well filled with students, some exercising and some looking on. Several were quite expert, and we saw some difficult feats of strength and agility. Growing tired we betook ourselves to a seat, and scanned anxiously the various gentlemen about...
...Cambridge workshop," was what Mr. Gosse called this informal talk. Mr. John Morley. He said, had started to write up Gray for the English Men of Letter series, but had bequeathed his literary work to Mr. Gosse. From this beginning in the Men of Letters Series, Mr. Gosse betook himself to editing the works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington...