Word: adds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reduction in the salaries of those who adopt it. So far as can be ascertained, the substance of what the Corporation wish to do is this: if each officer or instructor in the University will set aside five per cent of his salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time...
...small section of picket fence, and the gate, which adorn the entrance to the Yard next Wadsworth House, are so perfectly useless, that they might well be removed, even though they do add originality to the Yard, being entirely different from the rest of the fence. They cause some delay there at times when men are coming to and from Holyoke House and Little's, and are an unmitigated nuisance. I hope they will be taken away as soon as possible...
TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...
...signify their intention of entering any sport not mentioned above, such sport will be added by the Executive Committee at their discretion, as it may be inconvenient to add all which might be suggested...
Cambridge-Oxford. The thirty-fifth annual race between these Universities was a mere walk-over for Cambridge, which won by seven lengths in 21 min. 18 sec. Each University has now won seventeen races, and there is one dead heat, - a remarkable record, and a fact that will add much interest to the race next year...