Word: stood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crowd of underclassmen stood on the pier of the boat house yesterday to see their favorites go on the water for the first time this year...
...question for discussion at the Union last night was, Resolved, "That the Knights of Labor deserve the support of the working classes." The vote on the merits of the question stood, affirmative, 31: negative, 10. The principal disputants were: affirmative, A. T. Perkins, '87, and E. E. Shoemaker, '89; negative, N. F. Hesseltine, 88, and G. A. Reisner, '89. The vote on the skill of argument of these disputants resulted in favor of the negative, 35 votes...
...Gaines won the first bout, feather-weight, in very good style, using his left hand to especial advantage. The second bout between E. Grew, H., '89, and J. D. Williams, was the sharpest and most one sided contest of the day. Grew was beaten in the first, although he stood up for the second and third rounds. In the second round the made a brace which availed him nothing. He was knocked out in the third, and Williams was given the bout. Williams had considerable science, but he should not have slugged a man so obviously his inferior...
...after the war of 1812, it still had several revolutionary memories clinging about it. Not very many years ago the remains of an old colonial redoubt were still to be seen in its vicinity, and soon after it was built a great number of revolutionary muskets and cannon were stood there. After the war of the rebellion these old arms were sold at wholesale to private parties, who retailed them off at a good profit as relics of the revolution. The cannon, which now stand on the common, were presented by the state to the city of Cambridge...
...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...