Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Many of us have seen those round pieces of card-board, bearing on the obverse the illuminated motto, "Scratch my Back," and on the reverse a piece of sandpaper. We have often seen them, and have often made unsuccessful attempts to light matches on them; but I venture to say that it never occurred to the venerable Alumni when they reared Memorial Hall that the tablets and the carved wood-work would ever be used for a "scratch-my-back...
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...full week's notice, and he proposes as a check that any member who should withdraw at any time except the end of one of the three periods for which term bills are made out should be charged for the remaining time one third of the cost for board. Now what to the President seems weakness must seem to the students strength; and in the liberty to withdraw is the only check the student has on such board as was furnished during the first half of last year. Memorial Hall offers too many attractions to allow any considerable number...
...decision of the Board that Memorial shall be kept open during the recess, and that those who are absent from Cambridge shall be charged half price, is, perhaps, on the face of it, somewhat unfair; but the same notice that gave the above information threw some crumbs of comfort to the members by assuring them that the decision had only been arrived at after a full discussion of many plans. One of these, it seems, was to close the Hall entirely, a course which experience has proved would result in a debt of $1,000 that would have...
...papers. The Courant has tried two, and the Era has depicted the disastrous effects that the cap and gown produces on Ithaca's inhabitants. As the mania seems to be travelling westward, we may expect the next thing in this line to be a picture of the Niagara Index board...