Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...British troops were ordered to Cambridge after the surrender of Burgoyne, October, 1777, General Heath asked the Corporation for the use of the College buildings, but as that body was rather unwilling to comply, offering only the use of one house, he sent them a peremptory order to dismiss the students, which was done. The soldiers, however, used only the building first offered, and the students returned after a vacation of two or three months...
...Williams University crew have been rowing on the Charles River during the present week, in order to be under the supervision of Mr. P. C. Chandler of the Class of '72 at Williams. The crew have used the boats of the Matthews Club during the week, but they expect to get their shell from Blakey to-day. They are at a training table at Memorial Hall, and express themselves very well satisfied with the fare...
...proposed to give over the Boat-House property to the College. The College then agrees to pay off the mortgage on the Boat House, and to provide the building, up stairs, with some 200 lockers, five shower-baths, a bathing-room, and a reading-room. In order to carry out this plan, some $3,500 will need to be expended. A further sum of $1.50 will be needed from each member of the Clubs, in order to pay the interest on this money...
...President, Mr. Swift, called the company to order shortly after nine o'clock, and gave for the first toast, "The Class of '77," to which Mr. Denny, the Vice-President of the Institute, replied. After a song, Mr. Burr, the orator of the evening, delivered an oration sparkling with wit. This was followed by a poem, read by Mr. Barrett Wendell, and which may safely be pronounced the feature of the literary exercises...
...concert was in every way superior to any previous concert of the year; and great credit is due to the efforts of the leaders of the two organizations, who have worked faithfully to make their clubs of the first order in every respect...