Word: token
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mortgage on his estate. The only solution of his difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn out of the way. The idea is repulsive to him, but Donny Mann, the devoted hireling of Cregan, expresses his readiness to act if Cregan will but send his glove as a token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances...
...Alumni and students of the University of Minnesota, last Saturday, presented ex-Captain Leary a medal as a token of their respect and gratitude for the work he has done for the U. of Minnesota football team...
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., Nov. 21, 1892."The students of the University of North Carolina, as a slight token of their appreciation of the character and services of a man who deliberately surrendered the Presidency in order to instruct the people in correct principles of government and especially of taxation - who in short preferred to teach the people rather than rule them - do hereby resolve to send ten delegates to the second inauguration of Grover Cleveland, and do earnestly request all the colleges and universities of the United States to unit +++ grand student demonstration in honor of our great political...
...provide for the furthering of education. These are advantages which have been left by the generosity of former generations of men who have given what they had unquestioningly to the coming set of young men of whom they knew nothing. They gave it to their Alma Mater as a token of their appreciation of the priceless gifts they had received from her hands, and in a knowledge that what they gave would help some unknown person in the future over the same difficulties over which they themselves had been helped. One cannot go through Harvard with his eyes open without...
...sophomore class at Yale has adopted resolutions of sympathy concerning the death of Wilkins Rustin '93, and as a token of grief, a badge of mourning will be worn for the rest of the college year...