Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...WOULD RATHER SEND MY SON TO THE WORST COLLEGE IN THE SOUTHEAST, WHERE MY LEADING-STRING WHIMS ARE HUMORED, THAN TO THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN THE NORTHWEST, WHERE HE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLAY IN THE STREETS AFTER NINE O'CLOCK, AND BE TAUGHT THAT EVERYTHING DEPENDED UPON DOING HIS DUTY AND BEHAVING HIMSELF." - Dr. M'Bosh
...collection a hawk and a crow from H y, also an owl which has sat for several years in solemn silence, scanning the movements of the inhabitants of 17 H'y. Could it speak, tales of some queer freaks in this old room might be told. A clock which used to be kept in Mass. 27 might add to the wonder of what is coming next. This shall be an exceedingly large pair of spectacles with various names upon it, and which formerly did service perhaps as a sign. A map of the world, completely covered with names...
Especially if, as the clock struck...
...thoroughly tried last year, was successful enough to warrant its continuance this year, in a modified form. In addition to Professor Agassiz's course, two others are now being given, one by Mr. Samuel Eliot, on the History of the Nineteenth Century (continued), on Saturdays, at ten o'clock, in Boylston Hall; the other by Mr. C. C. Perkins, on the History of Art, on Fridays, at three o'clock, in Boylston Hall...
...calling attention once more to the subject of gas in the entries, we hope not to appear to cavil or to display a childish fretfulness. But it is a matter that greatly incommodes the students. The fact that the gas is allowed to burn till eleven o'clock is a tacit acknowledgment that the convenience of those who pass through the halls ought to be provided for. There is no reason that the gas should be put out at eleven, rather than at nine or ten; for few go to bed so early, and most find it natural...