Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Trip to New London and return, 2 weeks...
...this year has been considerable, but not so great as could have been wished. Next year it is possible to greatly extend its usefulness and increase its advantages. This can be accomplished if but a larger number will come forward and become patrons of the institution. Considering the large return offered on the investment, and the small sum required to obtain the privileges of the room, it is certainly surprising that it is not better patronized. In proportion as its membership increases, its advantages also increase. Every one should remember the reading room next year, and give it his support...
Chang Tsung Liang, an attache of the Chinese legation, who passed through Denver Thursday on his way to Washington, said that China will return fifty students to American colleges, having discovered that their removal was a mistake...
...senior class formed in procession, and after marching to music about the campus, took their way down into the city, attended with cheering and fireworks, to attend the class supper. On their return, about daybreak, the excitement was renewed about the college grounds by yelling and cheering, and the seniors then resorted to the ball ground for the usual annual game of base-ball played between scrub nines on this occasion. Some remarkable playing and curious antics were indulged in, as may be expected, and the class then gradually dispersed to rest and quietude...
...about the boat-house and at the Beacon-street wall. Among the spectators were a goodly number of ladies, many of whom displayed the familiar crimson parasols and who joined heartily in the cheers for the college crews. The general state of the weather was delightful, but on the return course the oarsmen were seriously interfered with by the stiff breeze that blew up the river, while in the upper part of the course the water was quite lumpy, so that several of the boats shipped water. In view of these circumstances it will be seen that the time made...