Word: broke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club then drank several informal toasts, after which singing and storytelling were indulged in until the party broke up after a most enjoyable meeting...
Stone, '85, who broke his leg in the gymnasium, Saturday, is at present very comfortable...
...police of New Haven last week broke up a party of students who had assembled to witness a rat-killing contest...
...fight over the bowl had meanwhile gone on. The freshmen raised the bowl over the Thirty-fourth street fire-plug to break it. The fire-plug broke under the heavy blows from the bowl. Finally, tired and soaked, the freshmen claimed the bowl by possession, and triumphantly carried it across the campus into the building...
...students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students or having obtained permission from the same. After some altercation, the unfortunate...