Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...season tickets from $5 to $2.50, comes a short summary of the affairs of the Boat club: The expenses during the last college year were $10,076.17, of which $3.496 was paid for a new steam-launch an unusual expense, which was met chiefly by graduate subscriptions; $880 went for new boats, and $500 for the for the tank in which the crews practice rowing during the winter. The total receipts of the season were $9,918,03, leaving a deficit of $158,14-a very creditable showing. The leading sources of income with the amounts derived from each, were...
...woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening, for the sight of the great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor...
...very fine base ball player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board at Harvard paid and give him a cash bonus besides. He even went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said he went to Pennsylvania on his own account and would go to no institution on other terms...
...hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished. In the first place we fail to see the unwisdom in allowing such an advertisement as Glee club trip. However much some may believe the contrary, a club such as that which went west last Christmas is no discreditable representative of Harvard dignity and excellence, and there is as yet no reason to believe that this year's club is not just as worthy an organization...
...Flat" received its initial interpretation at the Tremont theatre last night. The play is built upon the financial difficulties of a young couple who married on nothing, purchased furniture on the installment plan and went to live in a flat, while the husband writes tragedies which are never accepted. The devices to escape creditors and the dismantlement of the flat, followed by the improvising of chairs and sofas out of soap boxes and barrels, form the basis of action. The perilous adventures of persons who sit in these makeshifts and the disasters that ensue, give rise to a number...