Word: vale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Exeter sent down a very strong team to play Harvard on Jarvis Field, Saturday afternoon. It was made up as follows: Brooks, Frazier, Vale, Stickney (centre), Furnam, Van Inwagen, Hill; f. b., G. Harding; h. b. 's, Morrison and McClung; f. b., Kales...
...only representative, and the eldest surviving Alumnus, Judge Wingate, of New Hampshire, being ninety-six years of age, was unable to attend. The classes from 1763 to 1773 were successively named, but solemn pauses succeeded; they had all joined the great company of the departed, or, sunk in the vale of years, were unable to attend the high festival of their Alma Mater. At length, when the class of 1774 was named, Mr. Samuel Emery came forward; a venerable old man, a native of Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, who, at the age of eighty-six, after an absence of sixty...
...every vale with music fill...
...little valley, carpeted with green turf, and almost bare of trees. At the bottom of the vale, a chattering brook ripple over smooth stones, and hurried on to join the sea. Just above him the course of the brook turned from east to south-east; and where the valley curved, on the north bank, a pretty moss-covered grotto opened toward the sun. Behind this a cliff suddenly rose a score of feet; while before it a large flat stone formed a convenient floor, reaching from the cave quite to the edge of the brook...
...shadow-haunted vale of tears...