Word: draughting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professors Norton and Moore and Mr. Marsh of the Fine Arts Department honorary members of the club, and to ask Professor Norton to lecture at the first meeting of the club, which is to be held on Wednesday, March 4. A standing committee was provided for and empowered to draught a constitution and decide upon the programme for each of the club meetings, which will be held once in three weeks. It is expected that the membership will average about forty each year. Any undergraduate interested in art and willing to take an active interest in the society...
Those who sit near the entrance at the lower end of Memorial Hall, are made exceedingly uncomfortable by the cold draught whenever the door is opened. Could not one large screen be placed close to the door and directly in front of it, on each side of which one could enter. The present small screens are of no use whatever...
...everything but the lives of its students: we don't. But let us put the matter on a strictly financial basis. Suppose Weld takes fire and burns to the ground. Unless the fire began on the roof, the admirably constructed chimneys in the centre of the building (whose draught might profitably be imitated by other chimneys in the College Yard) would cut off the inhabitants from all escape, and a loss of forty or fifty lives would be the certain result. Now let us take the smaller number, and let us suppose that, on the average, they are half through...
...This draught for your genius...
...brother interrupted him by saying that in this winter weather, loose trousers were better than tight, because cooler. And with this he threw up the window and hung his head out, letting in a freezing draught. I presented him with his straw hat and requested him to go. He would not leave, however, until I had demonstrated the necessity of such a course by the theory of limits, - the limits of human forbearance...