Word: porting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alarm from box 24, quickly followed by a second alarm, summoned a large number of students to a fire in the Port, yesterday forenoon...
From all accounts that we hear of the so-called rush between '87 and '88, in the 'Port last Monday night. the affair, from a belligerent point of view, was a ridiculous failure. The sentiment in each of the classes was strongly against a rush, and most of the men went home peaceably as soon as the procession disbanded. Some, however, who lingered behind were precipitated into a fray by the bulldozing efforts of certain hilarious upper-classmen. The combat, when once begun, was marked by a commendable willingness on each side to cease hostilities. On the whole we think...
Owing to the fact that the Harvard delegation disbanded in town no systematic rush was held. There were several little private rushes, however, in the Port, in which honors were pretty evenly divided between...
...rumored that the entire Cambridge police force was to have met the brigade in the Port, if the students had marched out in a body...
...About half past seven the square was lighted up with torches and filled with the noise of drums and band caused by the Harvard Law School Blaine and Logan club, headed by a band of music and escorted by two companies of uniformed torch bearers, marching down to Cambridge port to attend the Republican rally at Union Hall. The Lawmen were accompanied by about 100 students and others...