Word: boons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Subsidies will restore the hammer to the shioyard, develop commerce, and prove a boon to American labor-Report of select committee, 1882, p 109; H. A. Hill's American Shipping...
...which ought to add further interest to the match. There are many men in college who have played cricket in preparatory schools or elsewhere, and we urge such men to come forward and try for positions on the team. The game with the University of Pennsylvania will give a boon to the sport, and we hope that the college will do its share towards helping the team to achieve as many victories this year as it did last spring...
...correspondent suggests that the spring vacation be changed so as to include Easter Sunday. The suggestion is a good one, and the adoption of it would be a boon to such of us as live in other cities than Boston. Those who live here all the year round can be at home on Easter Day. But it is not so with the others. If we remember aright, when the suggestion to lengthen the Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent...
...time to time and we are glad that at last our words have taken root. The nuisance which the small vendors of the Boston dailies create about the steps of Memorial and the chapel, is no little matter, and their dismissal will be hailed by all as a great boon. It may be hard on the boys, but their noise and squabbles are the cause. In this as in other things the innocent must suffer with the guilty...
...often happens that a man is obliged, by illness or other causes, to cut his laboratory work for a few days. He thus gets behindhand in his work, yet through no fault of his own. If the laboratories were open on Saturday afternoon it would be a great boon to such students, enabling them to make up, without obliging them to cut or crowd other things as important, which they may have on their hands. It seems to me that such a course would entail a comparatively trifling increase in trouble or expense to the University, and would...