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...relations with Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Buckingham and Burleigh. In the course of his remarks he read largely from Spedding; the different biographies of Bacon as a politician and judicial official were also carefully compared. The subject proved a fruitful one for investigation, and the club did not adjourn until a late hour...
...chair, because one member admitted to his having voted illegally. Reference was made to the notices posted in the college buildings yesterday, and signed by certain members of the Union. It was denounced as a forgery. No reply was made to the denunciation. After numerous motions to adjourn, the ayes at last won, and the meeting broke up. The defeated candidates intend to contest the legality of the whole election. It is stated that they will not submit the documents of the Union to their successors, nor will they admit the constitutionality of anything done at the meeting yesterday...
...society's organization was kept secret, but among the outward evidences of its existence that the "digs." nowadays termed "grinds," had, was a procession once every year. "This annual procession was an affair of great importance in the second term. After the procession the club would adjourn to Porter's Tavern, just beyond the Fitchburg railroad crossing at North Cambridge, and have a supper, commonly a very hilarious and noisy...
...handed Mr. Willard who read it amid great applause. There was dignified stlence for five minutes after the close of Mr. Willard's speech. Then Mr. W. A. Brooks, '87, moved that the report be ratified: carried; ayes, everybody; noes, none heard. On Mr. Carey's motion to adjourn the meeting broke...
...been changed, and a new order of things prevails. An order of things under which waiters are kept in line from twenty to forty-five minutes while some mysterious cook below stairs fills the orders. Meanwhile at the tables men sit and munch bread, or losing all patience, adjourn to the Holly Tree...