Word: withe
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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It was late in the evening when Mr. Babcock, after weighing all the testimony, declared Yale the winner. The reversion of feeling was too much. Harvard men could scarcely believe their senses. Yale grew correspondingly elate as they had been before depressed, and quickly made the hotels and rainy streets...
At about 4.22 the explosion of the Telegraph Co's firearm, a general murmur of voices and stampede to the bank showed that the Freshmen had really started. In a couple of minutes the placard for the first half-mile said, "X." "Am." "Hd." Cheers for Yale were given with...
The delay was partly due to the committee. The crews were to have come to the starting-post upon the firing of a cannon, but the committee, with a foresight quite characteristic of that body of Solons, had forgotten to procure a cannon. Much time was consequently wasted in waiting...
As they entered upon the last half-mile and became clearly visible to the spectators at the finish, the scene was one of delirious excitement. No one who saw that magnificent finish can ever forget it. The sight was as grand from one bank as the other. Those on the...
Then came the ball, which was advertised "to eclipse anything before seen in Western Massachusetts." We are unfortunately unacquainted with what is customary in that part of the State, but if the attendance is generally as much out of proportion to the preparations made, we are sorry for "Western Massachusetts...