Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large float has been put in place at the boat-house. The gang-ways will be ready within...
...faculty, and a few years later the freshman societies ceased to exits by decree of the same powers. In 1876 a band of undergraduates broke into one of the senior society halls and made havoc generally with what they could lay hands upon, and in 1878 another gang of collegiate marauders embellished two of the senior society halls by means of a bountiful use of paint, laid on in original designs. These last offenders were tried in the city court, but they escaped free of fine or imprisonment through legal technicalities, thus avoiding welldeserved punishment. During the same year...
...interesting tug-of-war is reported from Texas. A horse-thief and gravity against the limb of a tree. At first there was a tie, then the first side got the drop. Subsequently the leader of the gang pronounced it a "dead heat...
...board repaired to "Hanks," where the banquet table was spread. Song and story regaled the "gang" between the courses, while gaiete de coeur reigned supreme. - [Mich. Chronicle...
...anti-professional gang" is the Yale Courant's choice term for Amherst, Harvard...