Word: calls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...therefore feel that I may without impertinence call the attention of your readers to a plan which has occurred to me, and which may not prove impracticable. It is nothing less than the extension of the class festivities over the dreary waste of time which comes between the present Class Day and the present Commencement. If I am not misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that...
...convention of New England Colleges is called at Worcester for the 22d of November, for the purpose of forming a Rowing Association of New England Colleges. The presidents of the Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin, and Trinity navies sign the call. Wesleyan also favors the project...
...millionnaire upholsterer from New York, but as household art had not been invented at that time, it was full of gilding and bright color. And when I tell you that it contained no less than seven distinct and antagonistic shades of red, you will understand why I used to call it the battle-field...
Your room, to be sure, is furnished plainly; but your worst enemy could not call it shabby. And I flatter myself that it will not generally be pronounced to be in bad taste. The curtains, the paper, the furniture, and the carpet are in keeping with each other; and barring that horrible mantel-piece, which I did my best to conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures...
...WOULD like, through you, to call the attention of the Faculty to the state of the Chapel in the morning. Immediately after getting out of a warm bed, we are compelled to pass fifteen minutes in a place where the cellar-like chill causes colds and sore throats innumerable. I admit that it is impossible to have the recitation-rooms suitably warmed and ventilated, and am resigned to the colds and headaches I get in those cheerful places. But why there should not be a good fire in the furnace of the Chapel, I fail to understand. As long...