Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time the original building burned down in 1764, the Massachusetts General Court had been holding its sessions in it, having been driven out of Boston on account of a smallpox epidemic. The Province of Massachusetts, therefore, provided for the erection of a new building from the plans of Governor Bernard. The new building, which is the one still standing today, was built in 1765-67 at a cost...
...buttery", now obsolete, used to be in Harvard Hall. According to one account; "as the commons rendered the college independent of private boarding-houses so the buttery removed all just occasion for resorting to the different marts of luxury, intemperance, and ruin. This was a kind of supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery, and, in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which, for the most part, were not included in the commons' fare...
...appointment of Shaughnessy who is the leading Rugby football coach in Canada is especially significant in view of the forecasted development of American football into a more open style of game not dissimilar to Rugby on account of the recent ruling making incomplete lateral and backward passes dead...
...press continued to give prominence to suicides among U. S. school and college students, of whom 15 killed themselves last fortnight, bring the total for the so-called "wave" to 36 since New Year's (TIME, Feb. 7 et seq.). One enterprising news agency furnished an exclusive account of a girl student's suicide in Constantinople. A Cambridge University man slew himself. The opinion of almost anyone as to an underlying "cause" for the "wave," continued to make good copy...
...Scarlet Lily?Pale account of a War bride on a farm with temptation...