Word: chief
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...School.PROFESSOR CHARLES S. BRADLEY was Chief Justice of Rhode Island...
...ones, and a number, not small, of such as are ordinary and ill-repaired." In regard to these last the good Doctor had a theory of his own. He thought they must be "inhabited by men accustomed to rely on the University for subsistence; men whose wives are the chief support of their families by boarding, washing, mending, and other offices of the like nature. The husband, in the mean time, is a kind of gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets; deciding on the characters...
GENERAL THOMAS SHERWIN will act as chief marshal, and James Russell Lowell will preside at the afternoon exercises on Commencement...
...after the serious business of the evening is over we sit down to a supper, of which the uniquely shaped apple-tarts, which give the society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water was dispensed with, owing to a recent drowning accident...
...officers of the Phi. B. K. are; Secretary, G. S. Sykes; Chief Marshal, G. S. Sykes; Assistant Marshal, H. R. Bailey; Committee on Supper, A. L. Bond and H. Whiting...