Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Wednesday afternoon half a dozen Sophomores made a bet of a wine supper with some of their comrades, that they could pass entirely through the Fifth Ward with orange ribbons in their button-boles. They had got nearly through when a crowd pitched into them, and they ignominiously fled, but ran on in the direction in which they had been going, got through...
...Scientific crew, which has worked hard all winter and spring, would undoubtedly have made a much better show if their No. 5 had not the misfortune to slip the button of his oar beyond the rowlock, which of course necessitated their stopping at a time of vital importance to them, and when their position near the stake was wrested from them. Yet as soon as possible they started again, and almost recovered the whole ground lost by the end of the race, coming in a good second...
...French's, Palmer Street, between Church and Brattle Streets, Cambridge, in orders of a dozen each, at prices varying from $2.15 to $2.60 for a frame 22 x 24 inches; for frames 14 x 20 inches, from $1.90 to $2.20. These frames are conveniently made, with button-backs, so that the pictures can be changed. These arrangements have been made in order that the students may obtain portfolios and frames at prices corresponding rather to those at which the Heliotypes are sold than to those usually charged at the stores...
...with blue at the wrists. The "Y" is to be wrought in blue silk on the breast. Over this is to be worn a loose roundabout without trimmings. The belt is blue and wrought. Knee-breeches are to be discarded, and the breeches will reach to the ankles and button over the shoes. A blue cord down the legs is the trimming. The shoes will be white." The Nine are reported to be working hard at the gymnasium...