Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SATURDAY, Oct. 14. Course - From the first bridge below the boat-house, straightaway to Richardson's coal wharf. Entries - 1st, working singles; 2d, two freshman eights; 3d, senior eights, composed of men from the three upper classes. Entrance fee, 50 cents. If there is not enough entries by Friday night the races will be given up. Book at Bartlett...
Members of the Co-operative Society can now purchase their coal for next year. The price will be 30 cents per ton below the Boston price for anthracite, and $1 below for bituminous coal. 40 cents per ton will be charged for having it carried up one flight, or to bins on the first floor, or in the cellar, and 25 cents for each additional flight. Generally it is not possible to have furniture carried to the old gymnasium on the same day that the order is left, unless it be left before 10 o'clock...
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Aroused by an article in the last Advocate, we determined to see Memorial Tower. Thursday we visited it, and shall not soon forget its beauties, nor its coal-gas, either. By the kindness of the "warden of the tower" we were allowed to pass through the forbidden door "into the loft." This abounds in unfinished woodwork and undisturbed dust. Through the middle runs the picturesque ventilator, which might be converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here...
Quite a lively little blaze of two or three minutes duration occurred in a student's room, on Prescott street, yesterday afternoon. The origin of the fire is attributed to a coal from a cigarette, which, dropping in a large pile of papers, lay unnoticed until the papers, books and an adjacent window curtain were in a blaze. There was but one person in the room and he had to do some lively work to prevent a serious fire. The damage done to the carpet and furniture will probably amount...