Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...attempted to remark he took pains to deprecate. At last a little girl of the family came in complaining that she wanted to open a bottle of colored ink for her drawing, and no corkscrew could be found to fit. I offered to try to open it with a common screw and a string, as I had seen a friend do here at college. I tried and succeeded. "Thank you," cried the little girl. "O, how nice!" said her older sisters. The cousin smiled contemptuously, and observed, "Quite an undergraduate accomplishment, - opening bottles!" The little girl did not understand...
JARVIS FIELD will not be ready for ball-playing next spring. All ball matches will be played in town. The Common will be the practice-ground...
H.U.B.B.C.THE Nine held a meeting last Friday, and re-elected the officers of last year: H. C. Ernst, President; F. W. Thayer, Captain; W. Mason, Treasurer; A. H. Latham, Secretary. It was decided to play a few games this autumn, if possible, and practise daily on the Common. Work in the gymnasium will begin as soon as the weather is too cold for outdoor playing, and will continue all winter. It looks now as if the Nine will lose but one of their old men. The batting averages and fielding record for '75-'76 are as follows...
CANDIDATES for position on the Nine are requested to come to the Cambridge Common every day at half past...
WITH this number we close the seventh volume of the Crimson. The paper has had all the success that its founders could have reasonably asked for it, and for this the present editors thank the subscribers. At the beginning of the next volume we intend, in common with the Advocate, to make a slight change in our financial policy. It has been customary to send our subscribers' bills to them at any time before the completion of the volume for which they have subscribed. This has caused the business editor much trouble, and has wasted time which could as well...