Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...year, and as much mathematics as is required in our lowest divisions. We are pleased to learn that Rhetoricals are continued throughout the four years, and though our ideas about them are a trifle vague, we fancy they are very instructive. A weekly exercise in the English Bible is held, which all students are required to attend...
...catcher, who need not feel that he is every moment in danger of a life-long injury. To the ingenious inventor of this mask we are largely indebted for the excellent playing of our new catcher, who promises to excel the fine playing of those who have previously held this position. As a whole, the Nine are working together admirably, and their field play is unusually good. This fact was well illustrated by their first game at Lynn, where on a cold snowy day they made but six errors and scored a victory satisfactory to their friends and surprising...
...absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair by the window, closely studying a work by an author popular among students of the Classics, and occasionally glancing for explanation of difficult passages at a little book on the same subject, written by one Tacitus, which he held in his other hand. As the old gentleman turned to him, he wearily laid down his book, and settled his features into that cast-iron expression which is reserved expressly for such visitors...
...MEETING of the Junior class was held on Monday evening to adopt some plan for defraying a still outstanding debt of between three and four hundred dollars, incurred by the class crew. It was unanimously decided to raise the necessary funds by subscription, the subscribed amounts to be paid in monthly instalments for the three remaining months of the term, or until the debt is paid...
...eighth annual spring games, open to amateurs, will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 30, 1877 (Decoration Day), for which entries will close Saturday...