Word: witherspoon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are two freshman crews at Columbia. The permanent captain has not yet been elected but Witherspoon is acting as captain of the crew from the School of Mines and E. C. Smith of the crew from the School of Arts...
Princeton experienced a small fire last Friday afternoon. Witherspoon Hall, one of the handsomest and most costly of the college buildings, took fire in the room of one of the students. It was soon under control, however, and the loss will not be over a few hundred dollars...
Five sophomores were suspended for the crime of hanging a rag baby from a balcony in Witherspoon.- [Princetonian...
...Professor" of Mesmerism, whose entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students...