Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last rites were being held over a professor who ought to be respected by all, the college recitations and lectures went on as merrily as usual, and no one would know, from appearances, that such a sad event was taking place. We cannot conceive how the faculty could allow this to be so. Common decency demanded that college exercises should be suspended, at least while the funeral services were being held...
...rush" between Yale sophomores and freshmen many students were injured. The sophomores took canes from the freshmen, who went in a body to attack their opponents. They were warmly received, and the affair became so serious that a squad of policemen had to be summoned...
...with a cart-load of ashes went over most of the slippery walks yesterday...
...week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from the day of deposit. The loser of the funds was the father of a Harvard student...
...people as victims foreordained to suffer the whims, and freaks, and deviltries of college men. When the villagers presumed to protest and grumble, punishment fell upon them. The midnight rowdyism of the collegians was suffered in silence, howsoever many terrors attached, but the outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their own rights and their own powers." If Dr. McCosh really wishes to curb the spirits of his students in an effective manner, we advise him not to bind them down...