Word: went
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were about fifty men at the boat-house yesterday when the 'Varsity crew went...
...hundredth anniversary of the founding of Phillips Exeter Academy occurs in 1883, and in anticipation of it a committee has been chosen to prepare for the suitable celebration of the event next June. The following-named gentlemen constitute the committee : The Hon. Chas. H. Bell and Professor George A. Went-worth, of Exeter, N. H., John C. Phillips and Prentiss Cummings, of Boston, and Artemas H. Holmes, of New York...
Notwithstanding that two of their brethren were in durance vile the freshmen went on with their supper. Much as they hungered for sophomore gore they hungered more for the already long delayed supper, and so, waging a war of words against the sophomores, they quietly submitted. Yet blood is in the air, and '85 will soon attempt to erase this stain...
Harvard University ended the day that hall was dedicated; the other goes on from year to year, increasing as the years roll on. A stranger at Harvard yesterday would never have known that the day was a holiday, that the nation was remembering its dead. Recitations, lectures, examinations went on as usual. This indeed could be pardoned, but when the students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved...
Tuesday afternoon two boys who went to the bank of the river to shoot at glass bottles, got into a boat and were swept over Genesee falls at Rochester. The bodies have not yet been recovered...