Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning I saw the old Negro in the clearing gang. Out of curiosity I asked to see the time book. He was getting $2.50 the same as the rest...
...Civil War. The first locomotive he saw ran by the farm on the old Central Vermont. Aged 16, he taught school for a spell. Aged 17, he was sent to Massachusetts Agricultural College. Bad eyesight compelled him to give up his studies, get a job in a track gang. Three years later he was an engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive) on the Lake Shore & Michigan with a pair of red mittens on his hands and a book...
Crestfallen but still truculent, "Bossy" Gillis declared: "I'll take my lickin like a man. . . . But I'm going to watch coming administration and if anything isn't going right I'm going to get my gang together and see about...
...Fire, Fire, My Heart", by Christopher Morley. Miss Vreeland, who is touring the country in performances with various city orchestras, will then give a selection of vocal numbers. After these the University singers will render three English folksongs, "Gentle Johnny," "The Foggy Dew", and "Spanish Ladies", "Der Gang Gang zum Liebschen", by Brahms, and Choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado". Following another group of songs by Miss Vreeland, the Club will sing "Border Ballad" by William and excerpts from Faure's "Requiem...
...usual the University singers will be conducted by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Glee Club. The program will include "Halleluiah Chorus," by Beethoven; "Adoramus Te," by Palestrina; three English folk songs, "Gently, Johnny," "The Foggy Dew," and "Spanish Ladies"; Der Gang zum Liebchen," by Brahms; choruses from "The Mikado," by Sullivan; and choruses from "Requiem," by Faure. Miss Vreeland will sing two groups of solos...