Word: took
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York took place at Delmonico's on Friday last. The after dinner speech of the President of the Club, Mr. Rufus H. Choate, was witty and entertaining; and the remarks of President Eliot and Professor Benjamin Peirce are of interest to all undergraduates as well as graduates...
...This "Promenade" has finally taken place, and from the account which the Courant gives of it we are led to infer that polite society is not the sphere for which the Yale man was created. "We would (sic) like," says the Courant, "to remind some of those gentlemen who took such delight in plunging from one end of the hall to the other in three steps, and bumping everybody on the way, that it would be well to take a few lessons either in dancing or etiquette." We thought at first that this little peculiarity must have proved quite unpleasant...
...Rush," described on the next page. The "Banger Rush" was caused by the fact that "although it was twelve days before the customary time for Freshmen canes to be seen on the street, several members of '79 swung out last Wednesday with the offensive article of furniture." A fight took place between the Sophomores and Freshmen under the windows of the New Haven House, and was viewed with interest by the "ladies" of that hostelry. The college authorities inconsiderately interfered, but many more contests took place during the eventful day, and now several Sophomores are waiting, in fear and trembling...
...itself raise them. When Munnee and Boshor discovered this, they spat upon the earth, and a great river sprang forth which divided the world into two parts. On one side of the river they placed all the men, and upon the other side all the women. Munnee then took his place among the women, and Boshor among the men. At the end of a year the miraculous power of Boshor enabled her to bring forth as many female children as there were men, while the commerce of Munnee and the women produced an equal number of males. When these demigods...
...SCRUB-MATCH between the members of the Rifle-Club took place Tuesday afternoon. Appended is the score...