Word: extras
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wherefore of the present condition of the society is very simple. Last year extra service was hired, extra inducements offered, and the business of the society was enlarged generally. As a result, last year was the first really successful year of the society's existence. Basing their calculations on these results, the superintendent and directors decided on certain additions and enlargements in the business and work of the society, calculating on a membership of one thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions...
There was an extra lecture in Hist. 13 yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Hart mentioned the important points of the course...
...just over and the midyears looming up before us, like a dark cloud on the horizon, we naturally feel that we are indeed in the very midst of the stern realities of student life, and, just as naturally, we are somewhat prone to resent any attempts to impose any extra work upon our already overburdened shoulders. But just at this critical time, the Juniors and Sophomores are fiddled with dismay at the announcement that a theme will be required from them on Wednesday next. Well, the ingenuity displayed by our instructors in selecting inopportune moments for springing work upon...
...Extra winter meeting...
...them reach even that exalted standard. Now, by the gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term! And what's this? 'Board at Harvard Dining Association,' $54,-well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck to the regular feed I couldn't have eaten all those extras, so it seems to me they ought to wipe off either the "board" or the "extra" items. And here, may it please the Olympian Tens, is the last one of all,-the last straw...