Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...brilliant red waistcoat covered the upper part of his body. He took off his large slouch hat as he came in, and showed a head of brown ringlets. Thinking he had been taking part in some theatricals, and had wandered by mistake into my room, I offered him a chair and my jar of Lone Jack. He dipped his thumb and forefinger into the tobacco and proceeded to take it as snuff...
...Professor E. Root has been elected to fill the chair of Natural Philosophy made vacant by the death of Professor Snell...
...Lindsey, a graduate of Harvard, and of the Paris School of Arts, has been appointed to fill the new chair of Architecture and Applied Arts...
LAST Monday the annual meeting of the University Boat Club was held in Holden Chapel; the president of the club, Mr. Weld of '76, was in the chair. After the reading of the secretary's report of the contests at Springfield and Saratoga, the election of the executive committee for the coming year was in order. Mr. Bancroft proposed the following ticket, which had been agreed upon by the committee of last year: for President, W. F. Weld, '76; Vice-President, H. G. Danforth, '77; Secretary, A. M. Sherwood, '78; Assistant Treasurer, H. J. Harwood, '77. There was no opposition...
...short, but strongly built, and dressed as men dressed long ago; his face was pallid and strangely contorted; a heavy rope was knotted around his neck and trailed upon the floor. I was about to offer the figure a chair when it occurred to me that it might be his custom to take rest by hanging himself up; and having no conveniences for performing that operation, I hesitated. At the same moment the apparition grasped the rope with both hands, and, by a mysteriously complicated movement, caused himself to perform a complete somersault...