Word: gave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will all plead guilty to the charge, but they are undoubtedly justified in their stand to great extent, either by a lack of energy on the part of the management or by a lack of invitations to give concerts in the suburbs of Boston. Last year the Pierian Sodality gave at least ten concerts, outside of Cambridge, and as there always was plenty of jollity after the concert, the men took a great deal of interest in their work and hence in the welfare of the Society. This year so far no concert has been given by the Pierian Sodality...
...Amherst College Glee Club gave a concert at Gardner Wednesday night. After the concert the club was tendered a reception and dance by the Gardner High School...
...announcement of the sudden death of Thomas Parker Sanborn, (A. B., 1886), will be sad news for the large number of friends who knew him during his college life, and the class of Eight-six will feel that it has indeed lost a member whose earlier years gave promise of a brilliant future...
While at Harvard, Sanborn gave evidence of no little literary ability. In his sophomore year he was chosen as poet for the class dinner, and his classmates will remember the clever lines he read on that occasion. During his whole course he was interested deeply in the college press. He was an editor of the Advocate, and was president of the Lampoon board, while he was one of those who founded the Monthly. In his junior year he won the Bowdoin prize by his dissertation on "The Rights and Duties of a Biographer." His senior year was one of unusual...
...eminently successful, and what was the result? A crushing defeat, such as had never been seen upon the Thames. At one time in the race there was almost half a mile between the two crews. Yale, naturally enough, retained the principles, the efficacy of which she had tested, and gave even a better exhibition of rowing than the Harvard crew...