Word: collections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enexhaustible theme which furnishes material for numberless communications and editorials in the different college papers. Yet all this agitation is of no avail. In times of deluge like that of Monday the stone walk still remains below the surface of the water, and during every rain its hollows still collect puddles of water into which the unwary student plunges. The only remedy for this evil is to raise the flagstones a few inches and to give them a very slight slope so that the water may run off and not collect on the uneven surfaces. But to accomplish this money...
...hand, without being obliged to go to the expense of fitting up grounds of its own. These grounds are fairly well provided with trap-shooting apparatus, and are very pleasantly located, being in a thinly settled part of Watertown, where no troublesome crowed of spectators is liable to collect. Besides, the spot is comparatively easy of access, as it can be reached in a ride of twenty minutes. Taking these advantages into consideration, there ought to be a large number of men at the weekly meets of the club...
...Times writes to that paper the following exposition of the faculty's position which he gleaned from one of its members. Speaking first of the necessity of some action and the failure of the first attempt he continues: "The best thing to be done, therefore was to collect as many colleges as possible and see what could be done. The conference was called, and, after much debate, the resolutions were adopted. The method of consideration was of attack, and apparently every contingency was provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood not to be the common...
Persons who use the reading-room of the library should remember that it was established for the use of all and not for the convenience of any one personally. This fact seems frequently to be forgotten. It is a habit of certain individuals to collect all the latest issues of the most popular magazines on entering the room, and then settle themselves down for a comfortable read, without a thought that they are leaving unused at the time three or four magazines which other men might like to see. It is nothing but an injustice for a man to keep...
...operative office boy will collect second-hand books from members' rooms in Matthews and Felton during the morning, today and tomorrow...