Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the University of Vermont are to hold a mock courtmartial, under the direction of their military instructor...
...balloting for the conference committee resulted in the choice of Messrs. R. B. Smith, Huddleston, Merriam, and Claflin. On motion of Mr. Frye, it was decided to hold a class dinner, if fifty names could be secured. Messrs. Austin, Codman, Barnes and Minot, were chosen a committee to make proper arrangements for the dinner. Mr. Edgerly was elected captain of the class nine, to supply the vacancy caused by the resignation of Captain Phillips...
...exception. We propose, as a remedy, that a corps of umpires be appointed, which shall consist of one alumnus as regular, and another as substitute umpire, from each of the colleges in the Inter-collegiate Base Ball Association, and that these be elected by the college independently, to hold office for a limited time...
...after week, morning, noon, and afternoon, I have called at the janitor's room, only to find him out. But for certain circumstances, which I shall mention later, I would have doubted that there was any janitor about at all. However, perhaps it is well that I could not hold the interview. Who knows that I would now be able to write, had I dared to interview a janitor ? The matter of this article, then, must be from my own experiences, or from nothing more reliable than hearsay...
...distant but slow approaching dill of his tread, so that the bursting open of the door, like the grande finale of a series of thunder claps is not as alarming as it might be; the previous rolling thunder has prepared me. Once entered, with mighty hand he seizes hold of my stove and dances it about the room, for a few minutes, I suppose,-it really seems ages,-then rattles the coal on, picks open the drafts, slams the stove door and the door of my room, and is gone, gone as mysteriously as a fairy, if not quite...