Word: bags
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shakespeare Club had great difficulty, it is rumored, in deciding upon a name. Shakespeare Club, Boylston Club, Elocution Club, Harvard Oratorical Society were proposed; then The Gas Bag, The Jones Club, and The Spouting Horn were proposed. A compromise was proposed in the form of "The Shakespeare-Boylston Elocution Club of Oratory and Dramatic Art," which was rejected...
...lying between Tufts College and winter Hill, over fences and railroad banks and through an unpleasant marsh, where all, hares as well as hounds, got wet feet. Coming towards home on a straight road, the way was clear enough until suddenly the scent was found to stop without any bags being left. After a diligent search, one of the bags was found where it had been left a little to the rear. The other had been stolen by boys and the scent scattered on a lapse trail which had deceived the hounds. The break was a mile and a quarter...
...from loss of life and tuition fees. Investigations of fire escapes for the dormitories were consequently undertaken. For a few weeks the students were treated to a daily exhibition of some patent way of sliding from the fourth story window without damage to bone or muscle. The patent canvass bag, the self-working pulley, and several other inventions were tried, but found to be impractical. Nevertheless, it was said, the faculty would spare no efforts or money to make the life of students in the dormitories secure. After a year's deliberation, it was decided that the college would undergo...
Lost-on Jarvis field, Monday, a small brown plush bag, containing a pair of white opera glasses. Finder please return to Leavitt and Pierce and receive suitable reward...
Lost-on Jarvis field, Monday, a small brown plush bag, containing a pair of white opera glasses. Finder please return to Leavitt and Pierce and receive suitable reward...