Word: close
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chess tournament closed on Tuesday evening, and Mr. C. P. E. Burgwyn, L. L. S., was declared the winner of the Challenge Cup offered by the club. The second prize was won by Mr. G. P. Faucon, '75. The standing of each contestant at the close of the tournament was as follows...
...they suddenly draw the most striking of contrasts. They tell their preceptors that "at Harvard women take charge of the dormitories," and they proceed to describe the spotless neatness with which the students' rooms are kept by the sweet-scented sylphs of Cambridge. Finally, they return to themselves, and close with a prayer for cleanliness, tidiness, and women servants. We sincerely hope that they may soon have all these. Their present lot is hard indeed. We can pity, though we can hardly realize, the sad, solitary, and savage lives that they drag on, unbrightened by the smiles and uncheered...
...peruses the "Index" must be struck with the ingenuity of the undergraduate. The list of societies, clubs, and what not which that manual contains must inspire him with a genuine respect for our inventive powers. Close examination of the list, and full understanding of the objects of the different societies it mentions, will, however, lay us open to a grave charge, a suspicion which no ingenuity will palliate, - a charge directed against our sense of justice rather than the force of our intellect; a charge of unfairness. I have deliberated long before fully resolving to bring this matter...
...Gymnasium, to be sure, is open all day; but when recitations crowd as close upon one another as people in a Cambridge street-car, the journey there and back to our rooms, together with the attendant nuisance of getting into exercising costume and out of it again, consumes more time than we can spare...
...Library will close at two o'clock during the Christmas recess...