Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...readiness for the evening's entertainment, when it was discovered that the president, orator and toastmaster were absent. Without these important functionaries nothing could be done, so all proceedings were blocked for about an hour, when, becoming anxious, a committee was sent in search of the lost ones. The report of this committee was harrowing in the extreme. The rooms of the unfortunate absentees were found in great disorder, showing signs of a desperate struggle; and upon further inquiry it was discovered that the young ladies who expected to accompany the missing trio to the supper, had become convinced that...
...This report did but little to clear up the mystery, and matters were still in this distressing condition when, breathless and dishevelled, the orator burst into the room. The tale of violence was soon told. Overwhelmed by numbers, the freshmen had been captured by sophomores and conveyed to a solitary house on the verge of the town, where their captors had intended to confine them until day. The orator alone escaped, whether by superior muscle or by his impassioned appeals to the sophomores for liberty, is not known...
...Senate commerce committee is about ready to report favorably on the Hennepin canal bill...
College papers have recently circulated the report that the number of students at Cornell has constantly decreased since the admission of women. The president of Cornell has written to a member of the Society for Promoting the Higher Education of Women the letter given below, which effectually disposes of the question...
EDITORS OF HERALD: The victory of the freshman crew in the Columbia class races ought to dispel immediately the current report at Harvard, that the Columbia freshmen have not done much more in the way of boating than organize a crew. Their victory in the class races at Columbia has served to direct our attention to our own freshman crew, and we feel justified in speaking plainly of its work in your columns, since the freshman race with Columbia is eagerly watched by all those interested in freshman athletics, and inasmuch as this race is considered in nearly the same...