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...half past 10 in the evening, reached Lexington at half past four on the morning of the 19th, halted there twenty minutes, and arrived in Concord at seven, an hour after sunrise. The colonists were ready for the invaders of their village, and the minute men continued to swarm in from the country during the morning hours. They hesitated, however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force...
...quarter mile dash, T. J. Stead, '91, the scratch man, found the swarm of handicap men altogether too much for him, and did not finish. S. Wells '91 (5 yards). won in 51 1-5 sec., with V. S. Rothschild '91 (15 yards), second, and F. E. Stetson '92 (10 yards) third...
Freshmen should be on the alert against fraudulent peddlers who are beginning to swarm about the buildings...
Last evening, in Boylston Hall, Mr. Jewett delivered a lecture on Beirut, the port of Syria. The harbor of Beirut is shallow and passengers from the different lines of steamers-Russian, Turkish, English, French or Austrian are landed by means of small boats manned by natives which swarm around a newly-arrived steamer. On landing, a customs official confronts you who is easily disposed of; the size of the bribe is proportionate to the dignity of the officer. All Turkish officials have their price. A lack of moral sentiment and respect for their position is a characteristic of the Turkish...
...students passing into Memorial, and the crowding and jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...