Word: captain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Junior Class proved their "cuteness" by avoiding their meeting yesterday. There were present the three men who called the meeting, the Captain of the University, and a large and enthusiastic assembly of two Juniors. All business was referred to the Executive Committee...
...Varsity crew at Cambridge is the "Trial Eights." Substitute the word "Sixes," and it becomes applicable to Harvard as well as to Oxford and Cambridge. They - "the Trials" - are just getting under way here, and a short account of them may not be uninteresting or uninstructive to the captains of the Harvard clubs. They are rowed during the first week of December, although the 'Varsity race is not till April. The reason is, that men get "rowed out" and utterly "stale" if they are kept at it without intermission, and a three or four months' absolute rest from work...
This was enough. After having provided an armament for the contemplated slaughter of game, and ammunition enough to storm a fort, our party arrives, on a superb moonlit evening, at the neat and homelike Samoset. Mine host is something of a character, being a combination of the old sea-captain and English country gentleman. After a substantial supper and a bottle of Scotch ale he is ever a philosopher, with the tenets of Epicurus, and desires nothing better than a new lease of life, with permission to live on the Gurnet, with his dog and gun, and observe the revolution...
...following gentlemen from the Foot-Ball Club have gone to Montreal to kick the match game with the McGill Club: Captain, A. B. Ellis, '75, M. Prince, '75, H. J. Morse, '74, W. C. Sanger, '74, R. Gray, '75, F. S. Watson, '75, W. A. Whiting, '77, M. L. Cate, '77, J. A. Wetherbee, '78, G. P. Faucon, '75; Substitute, H. Williams, '75, Umpire, A. D. Iasigi...
...Boat-House Fund, borrowed by Captain Goodwin...