Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plank higher up to serve as a writing desk. Upon a victim attempting to assume an upright position, this latter plank comes into play upon the small of the back, after the manner of one of the ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities, except that they give a consumptive slope to the shoulders. The cramping of knees and elbows...
...from the primitive seats of our "arboreal ancestors." They are, for the most part, cheap wooden chairs, constructed with an entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
...gentleman who by mistake took a black silk umbrella with a silver handle from the Auditor's room in Memorial yesterday at lunch will please return the same to the Auditor and get his own in exchange...
...officers of the Delta Upsilon are: President, W. F. Osgood, '86; vice-president, W. L. Currier, '87; secretary, H. W. Bean, '87; treasurer, R. W. Black, '87; chorister, B. C. Henry...
Lost. - A medium sized black silk umbrella, plain, dark wood handle, with two black cord tassels suspended to the handle, has been lost in the Auditor's room at Memorial. It was taken by mistake, Sunday, Nov. 22. The one having it will confer a favor by leaving it with the Auditor...