Word: marlborough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical...
...Frank Michael, the successful playwright of the Hasty Pudding Club, has been presented by the society with a set of the "British Dramatists," obtained from the Duke of Marlborough's library...
...horse cars. We pulled and tugged, spilled the oil in our torches over each other's clothes, disarranged the artistic hanging of our black ulsters, and in the end drove from the car the resisting Freshmen. After forming on Charles street, we joined the main line on Marlborough street. We shouted ourselves hoarse for '87, for the ladies, and for the tattooed man of the white plume. At the South End we got stuck in the mud and had not our eyes at this instance caught sight of an orange and black '87 banner flying before us in the hands...
...about seven, the Harvard contingent began to form in front of Charles St. Jail, where, it is said, many had already engaged quarters for the night. After a rather long wait at this point, the column took up its march through Charles, Beacon and Berkely sts., to Marlborough, where it made the final halt before starting over the regular route...
...attention of all organizations that have been assigned to this division is called to the change in the hour of starting the procession tonight. The Chief Marshal has fixed the hour of starting at 8 o'clock. Organizations are requested to be in position on Marlborough street, at least fifteen minutes before this time and by their readiness to start at the hour named to insure the division a good position in line...