Word: island
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME excitement has been caused among the Yale students by an assault made upon J. W. Keller, one of the editors of the Yale News, on Thursday, by Robert S. Rodman, a Senior, of Rock Island, Ill. Rodman felt aggrieved at an article published in the News which seemed to him to reflect upon himself. A rough-and-tumble fight followed Rodman's blow at Keller, and the latter got so much the better of his antagonist that he is about the street, while Rodman is confined to his room...
...recovery of the bones of Theseus from the island of Scyros gave a great impulse to the development of the Arts in Athens, query, would the recovery of Stewart's body have a like effect in New York...
Harvard vs. Rhode Island 11 - 0 June...
CALYPSO'S island home. The billows break With silvery murmur on the coral beach...
Somebody or other once said that if a couple of Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves...