Word: troys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomores and freshmen of the Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy held their annual rush last Saturday. The freshmen won the rush by strategy which so disgusted the sophomores that they threatened to take revenge if the freshmen paraded. On Tuesday evening the freshmen engaged a band and started out to parade. The sophomores were waiting for them and before the parade had gone far, attacked the freshmen with clubs and anything else they could lay their hands upon. Many men were cut and bruised, some receiving quite serious wounds. The superintendent of police with a force of reserves, finally quelled...
EUGENE A. DARLING, of Troy...
...Italian Humanists," H. H. Darling, Troy, N. Y.; "The Key-note of Keats' Poetry," R. E. N. Dodge, Brookline; "Duties of the Scholar to Public Life," F. B. Jacobs, West Norwell; "Sir Gawayne and Green Knight," H. B. Lathrop, Oakland, Cal.; "Latin Oration," C. H. Moore, Cambridge; "Washington and Lincoln," J. H. Ropes, Andover; "The Place of Mysticism in Modern Life," P. R. Frothingham, Jamaica Plain; "Law and Public Sentiment," E. I. Smith, Lincoln; "French oration," James Geddis, Brookline...
...paper shell, which was ordered of Waters, of Troy, N. Y., arrived yesterday and was used by the 'Varsity crew in the afternoon. The new shell is heavy, weighing over 270 pounds, and will be most useful as a practice boat. It carries the crew high, is very stiff and flat bottomed. It is rigged with Davis pins and Waters shoes and slides...
...here will not be out of place. The play is performed exclusively by students of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and yesterday afternoon they reflected much credit upon their school by performing difficult parts of the tragedy with great carefulness and impressiveness. Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, had been murdered by his wife, and her paramour. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then a child, had been rescued from the clutches of his father's murderers by his sister Electra, and sent into Phocis. Eight years later he returns to take vengeance for his father's death...