Word: shays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understood that several interested undergraduates purpose celebrating on Jan. 19th the centennial of Mr. Shay's Rebellion...
...with the initials of great men gone before, and all are on their last two or three legs. These chairs give rise to many amusing incidents which enliven the otherwise weary round of lecture-going. Now and then they give way all at once like the "famous one horse shay," sending the heels of the occupant high in the air and giving his cerebral system a violent shock. Some of them go to pieces, part by part, like an old wreck; first the arms, then the back, and finally one by one the legs fade away. Some of these noble...