Word: decamp
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...describes the adventures of a young American author, the Celebrity, who disguised under an incognito, visits a summer resort by the great lakes, in quest of a very charming young woman whom he wishes to marry. Meanwhile the man whose name he has assumed, takes the opportunity to decamp with various embezzled monies. The Celebrity accordingly falls into some trouble, the police being in hot pursuit and finally escapes to Canada. Intentionally or otherwise, the author has perpetrated a most amusing satire upon one of our younger authors who has rather persistently advertised himself before the public...
...Hall on Tuesday evening and elected the officers and committees who will have charge of the commencement exercises next June. The following men were elected: Poet, Munger; secretary, Sumner; orator, Studinski; statistician, Parker; ivy committee, Hemenway, Thomas, Hamilton; triennial committee, Kerr, Darrach, Maddox; cup committee, Judd, Russell, Lapham; historians, DeCamp, Day, Clark, Lilney, Gerard; supper committee, Hull, Brookfielor, Harkness, Lapham, Babcock; class day committee, Sage, Brooke, Hinkey, Heffelfinger, Garrison...
Wolfs Head-B.C. Decamp, Cincinnati, O., J. R. Judd, Honolulu, H. I., T. M., Brown, New Haven, Conn., T. W. Miller, Akron, O., E. S. Harkness, New York, W. Darrach, Germantown, Pa., C. R. Hemenway, Manchester, Vt., J. I. Lineaweaver, Philadelphia, R. H. Miller, New Haven, G. W. Updike, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., W. L. Goodwin, New York, F. M. Crosby, Minneapolis, Minn., W. J. Lapham, Glens Falls, N. Y., A. W. Bell, Allegheny City, Pa., E. Hill, Jr., Danbury, Conn...
...sophomores and freshmen have elected their representatives to give and accept the Fence on the last day of the term. C. B. DeCamp was chosen from '97 and W. N. Vaile from...