Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen made more than usual disturbance at the Chemistry lecture yesterday, cheering, clapping and stamping their feet. This kind of thing is usual among freshman classes, but it is to be hoped that they will get their childishness worn off very soon...
...experiment was an explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door was partly blown open, the ceiling was sprung, and the wall on the entry displaced about six inches, and about 20 feet of plastering so damaged as to have to be torn down immediately. All the plastering in the room was shaken loose, and the wood work, paper and ornaments were badly scorched. Everything was in great disorder in the room when the CRIMSON reporter entered it; masons were engaged in tearing...
...sophomores sprang forward eagerly and seized the unhappy freshmen by their ears, noses, necks, arms, shoulders, legs and feet. They yanked the freshmen east, west, north and south. They climbed up on their shoulders and walked on their heads. They tore off the few freshmen who had on shirts every sign of them. They rolled the freshmen on the ground and walked on them. Most of the freshmen looked as if they thought the end of the world had come. Their red paint spread all over them like oil on troubled waters. Their faces were scratched and their trousers were...
...gymnasium for Phillips Exeter has been begun. It will be a brick building 100 by 60 feet. As the plans were drawn "under the advice of Dr. Sargent," a model institution is assured. A new dormitory and a laboratory are also promised...
...with a clean hit. Wiestling fouled out. Beaman hit to Cook, and got his first on Foster's force-out at second. Winslow hit safely to left field, sending Beaman to second, but for some unaccountable reason, Beaman attempted to steal third, and was put out while nearly six feet from the base. For Brown, Gunderson got to third on errors by Willard and Allen, and a steal, but two flies and a strike-out prevented his scoring...