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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Willard who read it amid great applause. There was dignified stlence for five minutes after the close of Mr. Willard's speech. Then Mr. W. A. Brooks, '87, moved that the report be ratified: carried; ayes, everybody; noes, none heard. On Mr. Carey's motion to adjourn the meeting broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton and Harvard | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

...amended: "That Harvard accept Yale's challenge to a race. The race, however, to take place over the Charles River course." After a tedious debate, the amendment was carried with but small opposition, to the considerable surprise of many present, and the amended motion was carried unanimously. The meeting broke up at nine o'clock with cheers for Captain Keyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshmen Decide | 1/18/1887 | See Source »

...severest penalties were inflicted on any nun who broke her vow to Vesta. The reverence which even the early Christians felt for this order is shown by the fact that when the Temple of the goddess was confiscated, none of the ornaments or decorations were injured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Lanciani's Lecture. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

...whole. Their blocking was bad and their tackling very high, and there seemed a roughness and uncertainty among the rushers which prevented most of their tricks from working well. Our freshmen played a strong hard game, though not a very scientific one. They blocked well, and the way they broke through the Yale rush-line was perfectly delightful to watch. And when they had got through, there was no standing round looking on. The nearest man to the Yale player who had the ball would seize him and throw him all alone. There was no holding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Record Broken! | 11/29/1886 | See Source »

...slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into the locomotive caboose and cry "hold her!" The engineer heard the cry and stopped the engine just before the slide. In applying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sermon by Mr. Moody. | 11/22/1886 | See Source »

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