Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WATCHMEN'S boxes have been placed on all the College buildings. They are so constructed that the watchman must wind them up at certain prescribed intervals during the night or they will record his negligence...
...moreover, a practice of certain scouts, when asked how much they charge for doing the work of tenants, to reply "fifteen dollars a term," which naturally sounds somewhat lower than the janitor's price; but which, taken in connection with the fact that there are two terms in each year, places the subject in a different light. I have written this simply from a spirit of justice, and I must candidly admit that my treatment at the hands of janitors has been such as to warrant my preference for them over scouts, while my work has been better done...
...should write the letter, it was voted to leave the wording and forwarding of the communication to a committee consisting of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, Mr. George Roberts, Mr. Trimble, President, and Mr. Allen, Secretary of the Club. The language used in connection with this subject by a certain graduate, in reference to a gentleman who has been kind enough to interest himself in our crew's success, was entirely out of place and uncalled for. The meeting adjourned with cheers for Colonel Henry Russell, who has given a voucher of $5,000 of the $10,000, and for Mr. Roberts...
...anything in the book but the title. The trouble is, we are apt to be gulled by these impostors, and never think of putting them to a test. They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story is an old one, but nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions...
...Reading-Room Association enters upon a new year in an unusually prosperous condition. Through the energy and skilful management of the directors last year a larger surplus than usual was left in the treasury; and with proper support from the members of the various classes success is certain. It has been suggested that the reading-room be open evenings; but the heavy debt incurred for gas when this suggestion was carried out a few years ago still cripples the Association somewhat, and makes it averse to a repetition of the experiment at present. Meanwhile the directors have begun a vigorous...