Word: ills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Long '94, who is ill with diphtheria, has been taken to the college hospital...
...Sawyer, Sp. '94, is ill with a slow fever and has temporarily left college...
...joint debate on an important question of the day. Three of the ablest speakers from either side were chosen to represent the clubs and the battle raged for nearly half an hour. The speeches were well delivered, especially the three for the Hoodoo side, but the judges, with exceeding ill taste, decided two to one for the Wah Hoos. Later in the afternoon the Hoodoos gave an impromptu operetta which was declared, even by their rivals, a decided hit. Thus pleasantly the day passed and at 7.10 the clubs reached Milwaukee and were carried to the Plankinton. In the evening...
Sunday morning the clubs left St. Louis at 8.35 for St. Paul, Minnesota. One of the pleasantest incidents of the trip occurred about noon of this day. At Beards-town, Ill., the Yale clubs were met and the men of both colleges left the cars and greeted each other very cordially. To the natives of the little town, who stood about in evident wonder on the station platform, it doubtless seemed very strange to see so many men, dressed in blue and pink gowns, rushing about, and talking so earnestly, and to hear, on a quiet Sunday morning, the yells...
President, John B. Kouwenhoven, of Flatbush, N. Y.; secretary, William H. Prentice, of New York City; master of ceremonies, Peter Vredenburgh, of Freehold, N. J.; poet, Jesse L. Williams, of Princeton, Ill.; class orater, Joseph M. Shellabarger, of Topeka, Kansas; ivy orator, John G. Wilson, of Baltimore, Md; historian, John M Mayhew, of Beatrice, Nebraska; presentation orator, Charles W. Somerry, of Philadelphia, Pa.; prophet, Leon M. Conwell, of Philadelphia, Pa.; censor, Charles P. Spooner, of Hudson, Wis.; Washington's birthday orator, William W. Smith, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.; Washington's birthday debater, Leroy Gresham, of Baltimore, Md.; Nassau Herald committee...