Word: falled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often does it fall to the lot of a college professor to be held by his pupils in such universal esteem and affection as was the late Dr. Martin, of the University of the City of New York. During all his career in that institution he probably never had an enemy, nor ever was for an hour the object of ill will. And yet the boys had lots of innocent fun at the expense of "Betty," as they called him. The appearance of his smiling, boyish face and gray curls, and his slight figure draped in the inevitable cloak...
...candidates for the different crews are hard at work and in strict training. The 'Varsity has been rowing on the river twice a week all the fall and now rows daily on the machines in the gymnasium. The following is the order in which they are rowing...
...Peters, '86, were members of last year's crew. Of the remainder, Morritt is a senior, Stores, Blake, Hobbs, Dodge and Appleton are '85, and Patten, Cowles and Appeton are '86. Hobbs was substitute for the crew last year. Dodge was the bow in the winning crew at the fall regatta and Appleton was the captain of the '86 freshman crew. Hyndman, '84, returns this term and a strong effort will be made to induce him to row. He was a member of the '83 university crew, and an old oar in a boat composed so largely...
...following events were contested at the Fall Meeting of the Tech. Athletic Club, on Dec.22, standing high jump, fence vault, putting the shot, light and middle-weight sparring, and tugs-of-war. The '86 class team won the latter event...
...employed in various services about the buildings and grounds. Occasionally in the pleasant season one catches sight of a melancholy Rozinante painfully dragging a curious cart of delicate years about the grounds, engaged in carrying lumber or removing rubbish of some sort. But it is with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely assuming his heavy task, he urges on his faltering steps in an almost vain endeavor to drag a cumbersome snowplow through the mighty drifts. Spavined, aged, Lame, his case would surely seem...