Word: ward
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next event was the hundred-yards dash, for which there were five entries, and which was run in three heats. In the first, Messrs. A. L. Rives, L. S., S. G. Ward, '76, and C. B. Chandler, L. S., started, Chandler coming in first in 11 3/4 sec. The second heat, between Messrs. A. H. Latham, '77, and H. C. Dunham, '77, was won by Latham in 11 sec. The final heat, between Latham and Chandler, was postponed until after the next event, which was the half-mile run. The contestants were Messrs. F. Cunningham, L. S., and J. Swift...
...Sewell, captain, '76, age 21, weight 155 lbs., height 5.9 1/2; W. W. Van usen, '78, age 22, weight 152 lbs., height 5.8 1/2; E. L. Mead, '78, age 20, weight 153 lbs., height 5.8 1/4; F. G. Holcomb, '76, age 23, weight 149 lbs., height 5.10; W. E. Ward, '77, age 22, weight 145 lbs., height 5.8; B. A. Rich, bow, '78, age 21, weight 150 lbs., height...
...said, "Pull the bell." I passed into a gloomy passage and pulled a bell; a distant tinkle sounded at the end of the passage, a door opened, and a solemn man in a girdle received me. In the distance I caught sight of a room like a hospital ward, - narrow beds, exhausted sufferers. Something was the matter with my guide; instead of speaking he pointed. I longed to get out into the open air. He directed me by signs to a little room and a girdle. After girdling I followed him to a door; it opened...
...have heard it stated that one of the Ward brothers happened to reside near Ithaca last spring, and that the Cornell crew pulled the Ward stroke at Saratoga. If the Era would resolve this seeming causal connection into one of mere antecedent and consequent, our mind would be at rest...
Shortly after the Concord Fight, a detachment of Continental troops, under General Ward, was quartered in the College buildings; and the College was moved to Concord for a time. Thirty years ago, iron spikes were still to be seen in Massachusetts Hall, from which the soldiers had hung their hammocks...