Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON announcing, Princeton's satisfaction was handed Mr. Willard who read it amid great applause. There was dignified stlence for five minutes after the close of Mr. Willard's speech. Then Mr. W. A. Brooks, '87, moved that the report be ratified: carried; ayes, everybody; noes, none heard. On Mr. Carey's motion to adjourn the meeting broke...
...strike has introduced a new feature into winter athletics. Walking matches from Cambridge to Boston and back are not at all infrequent. We have heard of some very remarkable records being made. The absence authorized referees and time-keepers at these contests alone makes us hesitate to publish any of the records...
...them simply for the fun of the thing, and underwent no severe system of training such as is now in vogue at present. They frequently made excursions in their boats, and occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight-oared barge, and wishing to vie with her on the water sent a challenge to row on Lake Winnipiseogee. Harvard accepted, the old "Oneida" was brought into requisition, eight men, who had never rowed together but a half-dozen times before, were picked...
...Sodality was founded in 1808, but we are only able to trace its history from 1832 on, as the records for the intervening period have disappeared most mysteriously. In those days "scarcely a sound but flutes was heard. From these the gentle murmurings or liquid trills rose from every side of the quadrangle the moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large...
...Princeton alumni of New York dined at the Brunswick last Thursday night, and heard Prof. Alexander Johnston speak upon "The New Princeton." An election of officers were first held, resulting in the choice of President Henry J. Van Dyke, D. D., '73; Vice-Presidents, James W. Alexander, '60; Hon. R. S. Green, '51; John Cadwalder, '59; J. Coleman Drayton, '76, and Charles S. Scribner...