Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Both Steele and Addison were born in 1672. Steele, an Irishman and the senior by six months. When old enough Steele went to Oxford, and there first met Addison, with whom he formed a friendship which lasted almost throughout their lives. After leaving college, Steele went into the army, against the earnest entreaties of his friends, and there acquired a knowledge of the lives and characters of men which served him well in his later work. He married a widow named Stretch, who soon died, giving him thus the opportunity of marrying again, in 1707. The letters which he wrote...
...candidates for the Yale 'varsity crew went to the training tables yesterday. Captain Ives has succeeded in reducing the number of candidates to fourteen, of whom five have practically been decided upon. These five men are Gallaudet, stroke, 187 pounds; Ives, No. 7, 180 pounds; Paine, No. 4, 193 pounds; Van Huyck, No. 3, 179 pounds and Johnson, No. 2, 170 pounds; all of last year's crew...
...Hoar was born in 1823 in Concord, Mass., and graduated from Harvard in 1844. He studied law in the Dane Law School and in New York City. He went to California in 1849 where he was a prominent lawyer and was for a time District Attorney...
...athletic team at Williams went into active training last Monday...
...Heywood was born in 1823, in Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1843 and three years later received a diploma from the Harvard Medical School. After three years service in the Massachusetts General Hospital, he went to Paris where he spent five years...