Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large limb was yesterday broken from a birch tree near the library, by the weight of the damp snow upon...
...gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman, a friend of one of the trustees, whose health has broken down under the cares of a country parish. Still, this result would, we think, be more surely averted if the undergraduates would put the faculty on honor by treating its members as intelligent and responsible beings, instead of arbitrarily enforcing a ruthless discipline and harshly refusing a petition which...
...open the door early, so that those fortunate enough to get there before the hour could quietly take their seats without being forced through the door by the pressure of the eager crowd behind? At the last lecture the balustrade at the head of the stairs was very nearly broken, and had there been a few more pounds pressure on it, there might have been a serious accident...
...with the Yale College Glee Club, except Strong and Crehoe, who were so badly injured, for damages resulting from the collision near Charleston, Ind. The club will be paid as an organization $1,200, $450 for expenses and $750 for losses. Bowen, who had his nose and an arm broken, will get $1000. Cutten and Sandford, who were bruised will receive $200 each. The suit against the road has been withdrawn...
...Professor" of Mesmerism, whose entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton 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...