Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia library the electric lights can be used at any time of day if any corner is too dark to read in without...
...postman was rather overburdened, as he made his customary rounds, with about a thousand extra missives, innocent looking enough in themselves, clad as they were in small and modest looking envelopes. But a closer inspection of the outside showed the ominous words, "Return to Allen Danforth," in the corner, and upperclassmen who read this legend knew well enough what was inside. Now it happened that we were sitting in the room of a prominent '85 man when this important official document fell through his letter-slip, and dropped unpretentiously to the floor. To us the disjointed comments he made while...
COLLEGE BONFIRE FOR CLEVELAND-The Yale students built a large bonfire on the campus at the corner of Chapel and College streets in honor of Cleveland's election. The gales and fences were pretty thoroughly taken from the neighboring streets to keep the fire going. Complaint was made to the Faculty and police, but in the universal feeling of joy over Blaine's defeat the enthusiastic action of the students met with approbation-[Times...
...excursion in N. H. 8 to day, will leave Harvard square, corner of Brighton street, at 1.15 P. M. The section will walk to the Allston station and take the train for Auburndale...
...passing the inevitable ordeal. But, on receiving our annual summons yesterday we noticed that it differed from our last summons, received exactly one year ago, in that the seal of the college which, if we remember rightly, is to be found at the left hand upper corner of the card, had undergone a change. Now, at the risk of appearing somewhat hypercritical, we would remark that the false heraldry displayed upon the card cannot fail to be painful to the eye of the conscientious student. It is bad enough to be summoned, but worse when that summons is stamped with...