Word: doors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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TAKEN-From the door of 30 Thayer, a silk umbrella. No questions asked upon its return to that room...
TAKEN-From the door of 30 Thayer, a silk umbrella. No questions asked upon its return to that room...
...rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear a party of six or eight go tearing through the hall, and down the stairs, four steps at a time, yelling at the top of their lungs. "Stop," says Snodkins, thrusting his head out of the door, "that's the worst kind of all; a lot of sophomores going to the theatre...
...seated," is the first thing to meet our eyes. In another quarter we spy the notice, "No visitors on Sunday," and innocently conclude that Mr. Snodkins spends his Sundays at home. That Snodkins is an '85 man is very soon made evident. A large '85 is upon his door, made as first appears from postal cards. Closer inspection shows the supposed cards to be suspicious somethings from the Dean's office, that proverbial "U 5." Snodkins points to these with the pride of an old soldier who shows his empty sleeve and tails of the battles he has been through...
...ceremonies as follows:-"The ceremony was simple and brief, and chiefly of interest as marking the beginning of the second half thousand years in the life of the institution, and as showing an Emperor, yes, "His apostolic majesty," delighting to honor higher culture. The monarch, received at the door by the academical senate. was escorted to their hall, not large, and densely packed. He took a chair in front of a table on a low platform, and listened to a fifteen minutes speech from the rector standing on the floor before him. After a few historical sketches he was thanked...