Word: ports
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Some idler strolls; and while his port he sips...
After a few unimportant skirmishes, the two classes joined battle in what is called the Lower Port, an extensive marsh which lies between Boston and Cambridge; the Freshmen charged their enemy, who received them with open mouths, and swallowed five thousand of them, each Sophomore picking his man; the remainder then fled in disorder, and have never been seen or heard of since...
...with the exception of a little altercation with the "minions of the law" in the shape of Port Peelers, reached Cambridge safely in the "sma' hours," having fully demonstrated the fact that Sophomores and Sobriety are not wholly incompatible terms...
...following evening the H. G. C. assisted at a concert given at Union Hall, in the Port, which was given for the same object as that of the night before...
...than walking out of a moonlight night, and watching the reflection of the-lunar rays in the water as they crossed the bridge. I know it was raining hard, and the reflection was only that of the street-lamp shining on the wet bricks. As we came through the Port, Smith, after reflection, concluded that there-were too many lights, and tried to put some of them out by tossing stones at them. I thought he succeeded, for I heard breaking glass, and it grew dark; but, of course, as it was dark, I couldn't see certainly whether...