Word: cannoneer
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...these puerilities gain their only attraction when under prohibition. There is some exhilaration in being chased from an inceptive conflagration by an officious proctor; but there is nothing so mournful as to split one's lungs in starting a blaze which no one cares to prevent, in setting off cannon-crackers alone and unobserved, or in blowing long and loudly on a tin horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body, (whose action on this subject has been perfectly rational, except that they attribute too great significance...
...Saturday taking part, in one way or another, in the celebration in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the departure of the first company of volunteers for the defence of the National Capital. As announced, the day was begun by the ringing of bells and firing of cannon at sunrise. At half past ten the procession started from Magazine Street and moved through the principal streets of the city. All the business houses and many private residences were handsomely decorated...
...effort was made on Saturday to photograph the Yale freshman class with their "bangers"; however, the wily sophomores frustrated the attempt by pelting the photographer with cannon-crackers, etc., putting him to flight...
...until shortly after the war of 1812, it still had several revolutionary memories clinging about it. Not very many years ago the remains of an old colonial redoubt were still to be seen in its vicinity, and soon after it was built a great number of revolutionary muskets and cannon were stood there. After the war of the rebellion these old arms were sold at wholesale to private parties, who retailed them off at a good profit as relics of the revolution. The cannon, which now stand on the common, were presented by the state to the city of Cambridge...
Last year the serenity of one of the entries of Thayer was suddenly disturbed by a violent explosion, which, on examination, proved to have been caused by a large cannon-cracker which some reckless student had fastened to the door of one of the rooms and then ignited. Although there was some ground for this outrage, the victim of the assault being a musical friend, the perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they...