Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Imagine his supreme disgust, when looking for his coat after dinner, to find that it had been stolen, almost under his very eyes. Now why should we be continually troubled by annoyances of this nature? There is no doubt but that the whole system of thievery could be promptly broken up if the authorities would only adopt the proper and needful course. At Yale the same state of affairs has existed, but, as usual, we are again forced to yield precedence to the New Haven university, for we learn from the Yale press that an offender has been caught...
...liberty pole and a few remarks in the newspapers are all that remind them that the day is a legal holiday. One year we did have some celebrations. In '83 there was a display in the yard of several patent fire escapes. whereby several ankles were sprained, one arm broken, and doubtless no end of bruises received. In the same year also many students witnessed two exciting dogfights in the Quadrangle. In '84 there was no such public celebration. May we hope that 1885 will at least do as well...
...hard fought battle. '88 forms her lines more clumsily still; she is preparing for a rush. But where is '87? Her men extend in a long straggling line for a long mile ahead. What is the matter? Are the Sophomores afraid of their temporal fathers, the Faculty, or of broken heads? We are greeted on every side by taunts and jibes from upper classmen, and even the Freshmen begin to hoot at us. It is unbearable; something must be done. Fifteen or twenty of us get together and shout lustily for '87 and then throw ourselves upon the advancing column...
...party of 200 students in Toronto, Canada, returning home late one evening last week singing songs, and raising a racket generally, was broken up by the police. One student, the son of a prominent member of the Dominion government, was given his choice by the court next day of paying a fine, together with costs, or of making a 30 days' sojourn in jail...
...case has been reported to us of a man, who, four years ago in the parade, secured fifty-seven handkerchiefs from fair hands along the route. We wonder if that record was broken last night...