Word: training
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ponds and streams by the roadside beyond Columous there was a good deal of skating and many of the following seemed homesick at the sight of it. But the train sped on to Cincinnati. Here it arrived at scheduled time, six o'clock. The concert was very disappointing in every way. So few people knew of it in time, that the Glee Club sang to a mere handful in the centre of the hall while the lonesome tones beat themselves to pieces on the empty chairs way off in the galleries. After the concert, barges carried the Clubs...
Wednesday morning at 8.30 the train reached Chicago and rumors of a great house soon put disappointment to flight. After breakfast at the Auditorium the Clubs left for Milwaukee, arriving there in time for dinner and a tea at Mrs. Abbott's. This tea was delightful in every way, many of the men renewing the acquaintance of friends whom they had met last year. The concert was a great success. At half past ten the Deutscher Club opened its doors to the men and received them with a hospitality never to be forgotten. About sixty men sat at a long...
...party with stories of his own adventures. A tremendous audience greeted the clubs in the evening- Yale's fence of the night before bore crimson shields till it seemed ready to drop to the stage. After the concert the men changed clothes at the hotel and boarded the train for Buffalo. Up to this time the rails seemed to separate the fellows farther and farther from home; now the rails on which they were hurrying seemed a band uniting them more and more to home and families...
...last day of the year breakfast was served on the dining car. At 10.30 the train reached the Detroit River and every body left the car to watch the process of being ferried to the Canadian side. Men were every where, on the tops of the cars, on the pilot house, on the lookout. As they neared the Canadian side they sand "God Save the Queen" some reverently, some mock-reverently. All that day there was no excitement till the train reached Niagara Falls just at dusk. Even in the fading light the sight was magnificent...
Tuesday morning the men saw the city. In the afternoon Mrs Pruyn gave a tea and there was a ball at the Delavan House after the concert. At 1.20 A.M. the special sleeper was attached to a mail train and the club were hurried away from Albany, each man bearing a special delivery stamp and addressed to the Dean, U. 5. As they were considered first class mail matter every effort was made to get them here as nearly as possible on time and early morning found them at Cambridge somewhat the worse for wear but willing to be sent...