Word: steerer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coasting accident which resulted fatally is reported at Williamstown. A party of Williams students were coasting last Wednesday afternoon down Wemetery hill, and ran into the side of a stone bridge at the foot of the hill. The steerer, Nathan Gest, of the senior class, injured his head so seriously that he died in a very few minutes. Mercer, '87, was also seriously injured in the back. The accident seemed to be owing to the steersman himself, who probably lost his presence of mind...
...claimed, alas ! that Fitzgerald, the bunco steerer, is a graduate of Harvard. His natural depravity is not explained by this fact. It is explained by the fact that he was born near St. Louis...