Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students this morning. We had strong hopes of once more meeting our old antagonists upon the field, of contending again for the prize which has for so long a time been beyond our grasp. But to disappointment we are doomed, and upon our fond hopes and expectations a wet blanket has been thrown. Let not, however, all this enthusiasm of the past few days be in vain. In order that next year we may be able to cope with our rivals, foot-ball must not be allowed to stagnate this fall. Let the class games be played with old time...
...make beds the loike 'o me. I well remembers the time whin me little boy tommy was down with the fever, he's dead now, sor, and it's a poor woman that I am, sor, -whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part with...
...winter, and at one of the hotels where he was staying, wanted to change some plates from one box to another. This must be done in the dark, there was no closet in the hotel room and so the bright idea occurred to him of spreading out an extra blanket and a rubber water-proof on the bed, and then crawling beneath the bedclothes to shift his plates. The landlady whose suspicion had been roused by the strange actions and apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during this operation, and seeing two legs sticking...
...scientists, but that young men attending the college should be given a free choice of courses. He thought that in the last ten years the moral improvement of the students had been great. Twenty-five years ago the average Yale student was a longhaired individual, wrapped in a blanket-shawl. Today he looked like a gentlemen, whether he acted like one or not. This change, he believed, was due to athletics...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is far from my purpose to attempt in any way to throw a wet blanket upon such an assured success as the Cooperative Association, but I should like to ask if the conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them...