Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hall has ever served. In the gymnasium about fifty men exercised every afternoon, under the supervision of Mr. Lathrop, and the absence of the regular crews made the use of the rowing machines popular. A diversion was created on last Tuesday night by the attempt of two men to break into a room in the north entry of Hollis. The burglars were frightened away, however, by the occupants of the room before they succeeded in effecting an entrance. As this occurrence has been reported to the police it is safe to predict that nothing farther will be heard from...
...Columbia sophomores recently broke into a room where the freshmen were having a meeting and indulged in a rush with the '88 men. To effect an entrance the sophs had to break in the door, and when in they found the freshmen all ready for them...
...often taken in getting off these "grinds." Another reason possibly why such a publication as the Aegis is successful in the smaller colleges, is that the smaller colleges have fewer papers, certainly nothing like the Harvard Lampoon, and therefore supply the need in another way. College wit has to break out somewhere, if not in a Lampoon, in an Aegis...
...game is demoralizing to the spectators mainly through its brutality; unfair play they usually fail to recognize. We often heard cries of "kill him." "break his neck" "slug him," "hit him," "knock him down," from those around...
...break in the hare and hounds run yesterday was made by mutual consent, the darkness preventing the finding of the bags...