Word: coate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper, such as is used in the examinations, is procured, and two or three sheets are closely covered with formulae or whatever else is likely to prove useful. When the time comes for the "cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object is to have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily...
...recently took a coat from hook No. 134, Boylston Laboratory will kindly send to No. 3 Gray a brass key contained in one of the pockets : no questions will be asked, either relative to the coat or other articles taken from the same hook some time...
...first military company here at Harvard was organized in the year 1769, and had for its first captain a graduate of 1770. The uniform consisted of "a blue coat, the skirts turned with white, nankeen breeches, white stockings, top boots, and a cocked hat." This company continued to rejoice the hearts of the students, and win the smiles of the Cambridge maidens for twenty years, till finally, indifference caused its death. Its last captain was a member of the class of 1787. After a sleep of twenty-one years, it was (in 1811) reorganized by Gov. Gerry, and then received...
...among his men. The men at New London are always worked as hard as the coach thinks that they will stand without making them sick, and it is very necessary that they should be cool and comfortable when off duty and resting, therefore they are provided with these flannel coats and trousers which are thinner, and cooler than the ordinary summer coat and trousers...
...Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room during the day. The university needs to take more thought for day-students, for that class of students is increasing with the development of the means of access...