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Word: tarred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boss election bonfire was made at Princeton. The pile was forty feet high, with several barrels of tar poured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/29/1884 | See Source »

...Sprinfield Republican thinks that "the Harvard boys ought to be kept at prayers till they know better than to tar the bronze statue of John Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/26/1884 | See Source »

Some ingenious persons covered the John Harvard statue last night with a coat of tar. The same persons presumable, marked a large '87 on the wall at the entrance of the chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/15/1884 | See Source »

...boys of Northfield College, Minnesota, were having a great deal of fun in changing a physician's sign for that of an undertaker, when a big kettle, full of warm tar, was emptied upon them from the roof of the house. More than twenty of them had to throw away their clothes and get their hair cut very short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/6/1882 | See Source »

...alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/6/1882 | See Source »

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