Word: boards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chum has gone down to get some lumber to board up our keyhole. These Hollis keyholes are about the size of a window...
...Scribner's, for January, T. W. Higginson proposes a plan for Inter-collegiate Scholarships. The necessary money being presupposed, candidates from different colleges will be examined by a competent board, and the prizes assigned to those who give evidence of the best general qualifications. As in the case of the English schools and the University Scholarships, each college will work for the reputation of furnishing the greatest number of successful candidates. Each, also, will try to be excellent in its various departments, that it may secure many of these scholars as resident graduates...
...pulpit has been entirely remodelled to accord with the other improvements, and the large and ugly "sounding-board," which seemed to threaten immediate annihilation to our much respected pastor, has been removed, and the whole interior has undergone a complete transformation. We learn from a responsible source that the undergraduates will soon receive a cordial invitation to see for themselves...