Word: took
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first of Professor Paine's Recitals from the works of the great composers took place last Wednesday evening, and was much enjoyed. Professor Paine will continue the Recitals every Wednesday evening until further notice, at half past seven...
...avoided in future. The meetings in the Gymnasium will be very useful in affording students an opportunity to show the results of their winter training, and to encourage sparring, wrestling, and other sports which cannot take place at the spring or fall meetings. The interest which the audience took in the proceedings last Saturday show that these meetings of the association are an assured success...
...spot once a year and enjoy themselves by themselves, and they regard as an intrusion the entrance of undergraduates on what they consider, and justly too, their own domain. This encroachment was particularly noticeable last Commencement Day, and in one or two cases under-classmen deliberately marched into and took possession of rooms to the almost utter exclusion of the graduates. It is to be hoped that by next Commencement Day students will have a clearer sense of the proper line of conduct to pursue, and, henceforth refraining from further intrusion, will leave the graduates to the unalloyed enjoyment...
...spelling-match mania has reached England, and a "Spelling Bee" took place last month at Rugby. Three gentlemen kept apace for some time, but at length one succumbed before Sanhedrim, and another before pseudonyme, leaving the victor to glory in the correct spelling of physiognomy...
Shortly before half past nine Mr. A. W. Foote, '74, took his place at the piano as accompanist, and soon the curtain arose on "the event of the evening." The operetta of "Cox and Box" was played in one act and ten tableaux, and the dramatis personae were Mr. Reginald Gray, '75, as Cox, Mr. V. Y. Bowditch, '75, as Box, and Mr. S. H. Hooper, '75, as Sergeant Bouncer. These gentlemen sustained their parts very acceptably, and both their singing and acting were well received. The Lullaby Song was rendered by Mr. Bowditch in a particularly happy manner...