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...apparatus is in use. The candidates for the Mott Haven team, usually about sixty in number, have not commenced work yet, but the class tug-of-war teams are practicing for the coming series, and others not athletically inclined, who work only to improve their physical condition, swell this number...
...college and created a new and decided interest in the subject. He has already won an esteemed place as an actor by his occasional excellent performances with Mary Anderson and by his early efforts as a member of the Boston Museum stock company. Students will doubtless help swell the hearty welcome which will greet Mr. Riddle on his opening night, and give him assurance of our hearty good wishes for his success...
...students. Last year '83 made a very handsome present to the 'Varsity in this way, and '89 has generously resolved to make a similar effort in this direction. We trust that every man who can possibly do so will attend at least one of these performances, and help to swell the amount which will go to the 'Varsity...
...CREW BOOK. Unless more men sign so as to swell the list at Leavitt & Pierce's, to one hundred names, the book cannot be gotten out according to first intentions and will virtually be a failure. Let no man say he will take a copy when they are out: what are wanted are names, so that the book may come out before the Fourth of July...
...during all this period of his college career where was Katharine, his mother! Upon the death of the butcher, from whom she received her portion, she married in due time a grocer, who, dying, left his property to swell the butcher's. She again married a cooper, and his moderate fortune was added to that of the butcher and the grocer, and so when Katharine, the much-husbanded, died, a year after her son took his master's degree, she had a considerable fortune to leave to her two sons, John and Thomas, and the latter son dying...