Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee have appointed, subject to the approval of the class, a clerk and tellers, whose names have been published...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: We desire to express through your columns our thanks to those members of the university whose energy in clearing the snow from Holmes field made it possible to have a fair test of strength with the Princeton team. Signed...
...many new improvements in the matter of buildings, new courses, etc., now in progress, and especially of the possibilities of the library, which has already attracted much attention, and which probably has the largest endowment of any similar institution in the world. The one person above all others to whose munificence these possibilities are due is the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske. As a fitting resting-place for her remains, those of her father and of Ezra Cornell, there will be erected a memorial chapel adjoining Sage Chapel. The basement will be a vault for the reception of bodies...
...Baggatiway" was the Indian name of this game - "a manly exercise," as an old traveller calls it. Lacrosse, "the cross," was the name given it by some Jesuit missionary whose religious zeal was far greater than his sense of the resemblance between things. It seems that when the term lacrosse was substituted for baggatiway "Poor Lo" was becoming an antiquated personage, a thing of the past; it was only when the noble red man was overcome by poor whiskey and too much religion, then we find lacrosse used to signify any thing else than the symbol of Christianity. Writers...
Patrick Joyce, whose trial for the murder of the Joyce family began in Dublin on Thursday last, has been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on Dec. 15th...