Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they entered the scow when a bell rang, and two sturdy marines began turning a windlass in the middle of the floor. The scow began slowly moving along a submerged cable, and at the end of a couple of minutes bumped up against the side of the receiving ship, "Wabash." "All out!" sung out the marine, the party jumped ashore, - or aboard - and the scow returned to the shore. Up a flight of stairs they went a trifle doubtful as to whether they would be loaded with irons and sent below, or treated like brothers and welcomed on board. However...
...statement made by the CRIMSON some time ago that a $4,000 scholarship had been given to Dartmouth on condition that no student who uses tobacco shall receive any of its benefits, is but an example of one of the many scholar ships at that college. It seems that every student who applies for a scholar ship at Dartmouth must sign a pledge not to use tobacco in any form while receiving aid from the college...
...bell was cast in Sweden in 1742, and from the peculiar arrangement of its clapper was evidently designed for a ship bell. It is thought to have been put up soon after the college was built, and has probably been hanging in the basement of the building for nearly 100 years. About the year 1854 some of the students, as a joke on the faculty, took the bell down and sent it to the students of the South Carolina College at Columbia, who forwarded it to the Oglethorpe University in Georgia, whence it was shipped to Macon and was there...
...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...form in a way which shall do honor to these ancient institutions. The First Church was organized in February, 1636, with Thomas Shepard as its minister. Shepard graduated from Emmanuel College, England, in 1623, and after much persecution from Archbishop Laud of London, sailed for New England in the ship Defence. He arrived in Boston, October 3, 1635, and came to Newtowne (now Cambridge) October 5. A company of some sixty persons soon followed Shepard, and resolved to remain and organize themselves into a church. Suitable arrangements having been made, on the first day of February, 1636 (corresponding to February...