Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intelligent and affable young men should be engaged on board wages, for the double purpose of maintaining order among the visitors, and pointing out the various celebrities among the assembled company. It would be desirable to provide these gentlemen with opera-glasses, by the aid of which the visitors could more conveniently distinguish the prominent personages to whom their attention might be called. And for the use of these a third fee, of corresponding value, should be demanded. A stand for the sale of heliotypes, College histories, etc., might also be advantageously erected in the gallery...
...course of an hour or so we come to Staten Hook or Sandy Island, I forget which. A very pretty yacht comes alongside, and a man from our steamer (whom I have noticed talking with the captain on the bridge several times) gets on board of her. Probably one of the Cunard Company who amuses himself by taking short trips on the different boats. I ask an elderly gentleman if this is so. He looks fixedly at me and replies, "Do you mean the pilot?" I do not understand what he is talking about, and walk away. He is probably...
...chairman of the meeting were in order. Mr. Watson, '75, was elected chairman. A motion was made to elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer; also one member from each of the classes to serve on a Field Committee; and a Field Marshal, to be a member of the Board of Officers and the Field Committee. The following gentlemen were elected: President, B. R. Curtis, '75; Vice-President, E. C. Hall, '76; Secretary, C. Isham, '76; Treasurer, J. T. Linzee, '77. Mr. Green, '76, moved that the Board of Officers appoint the Field Committee and Field Marshal. This was carried...
Since the meeting the Board of Officers have met, and appointed the following gentlemen...
...This question was actually asked on board one of the Cunard steamships when it was just leaving Sandy Hook...