Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Addison then read a few words and offered a prayer. A solo by Master Willie Macdonald, and again the audience rose as the choir sung "Hark, Hark my Soul," and the procession moved slowly down the aisle. Then with the deep harmonies of Beethoven's funeral march, the people went quietly away, having paid the last tribute to the man whom so many had found a friend...
...senior crew began regular work yesterday. In response to the call thirteen men appeared. They went directly to the Carey Building and practiced in the tank. They went through only the body motions. Until after the midyear examinations there will be no regular training. They will do a little rowing, a little dumb-bell and chestweight work, following with a run. After the midyears, training will be strict. The coaching will be done by Bond, Waters and Newell, none of whom will row this year...
Saturday morning the clubs went to Philadelphia, where they arrived in time to see the principal objects of interest in the city. Considering the fact that it was the last week-day before Christmas, a remarkably large audience was present at the concert, and every number of the programme was heartily applauded. The men were afterwards entertained at the University Club, which had extended its privileges to them during...
...clubs left Philadelphia for Washington, which they reached in the latter part of the afternoon. Monday, Christmas Day, was spent in the capital and all who had never been there before had a good opportunity to see the principal sights before they left. A few of the men went to Mt. Vernon during the day. In the afternoon a tea was given in honor of the clubs by Mrs. John G. Walker. The concert in the evening was one of the best given during the trip, and Mr. Wilder's Hawaiian song with its political hits was very enthusiastically received...
...rules for athletics which went into effect on Monday will deprive our teams of some of their best men, but sober college opinion will realize, in spite of this, that they are for the best interest of the University. They will purify athletics without reducing them to a strictly undergraduate basis. Not only will they purify athletics but they will place restrictions on them which will keep them within bounds. It cannot be denied that there is an athletic craze today, a craze which quite outruns sober thought on the scholarly side of college life. Athletes themselves are too willing...