Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take part in the play have been faithfully rehearsing for the last six weeks, and during the last two weeks daily rehearsals have been held. At the final dress rehearsal last evening everything went off smoothly and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. The men take hold of their parts with life, and seem to show an appreciation of the requirements of their roles. The cast for this evening's performance is as follows...
...river yesterday afternoon as far as Watertown and afterwards took some short stretches down to the Cattage Farm bridge. The order was as follows: Stroke, Boardman; 7, Marvin; 6, Sargent; 5, Donald; 4, Mills, McDuffie; 3, Whitbeck, Perkins; 2, Swift, Sampson; bow, Dibblee, Schlesinger. Last night the crew went to the training table at Lapham's for the first time, all the men going with the exception of Schlesinger, whose place was taken by Holden. Rust '98 coached the crew yesterday...
Aristotle, said Professor Goodwin, was born at Stageira, in the year 384 B. C. At the age of seventeen he inherited a fortune on the death of his father and went to Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...
...returned to Athens and established his Lyceum. The popular tradition that he taught while walking, which has given the name of peripatetic to his school, is probably wrong. The name probably arose from the shady walks of the grave where he taught. After the death of Alexander he went to Chalcis and there died...
Neither the 'varsity nor any of the class crews went on the river yesterday on account of the high wind and rough water. Every morning Mr. Faulkner is coaching, in a pair-oared shell, the men who have no morning recitations. The crew is improving daily in watermanship...