Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several hundred students in Belfast recently held a funeral over "Queen's" University of Ireland, which has been reorganized as the Royal University. There was a procession with a coffin holding a B. A. and an M. A. gown, and a tearful oration closed the ceremonies...
...drum-major, or grand-marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, followed by two students; the elegist, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks cropped so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers, six pall-bearers, with a six-foot coffin on their shoulders. They looked poverty-stricken: their hats, with rims torn off or turned in, bore the figures '63 in front; their apparel being such as is suited to the tearing football fight, and their left legs having crape on them. "The procession moved on," says John Langdon Sibley...