Word: extras
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dark, snowy afternoon, it was, in fact, last Friday, the 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...
...last winter, and at one of the hotels where he was staying, wanted to change some plates from one box to another. This must be done in the dark, there was no closet in the hotel room and so the bright idea occurred to him of spreading out an extra blanket and a rubber water-proof on the bed, and then crawling beneath the bedclothes to shift his plates. The landlady whose suspicion had been roused by the strange actions and apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during this operation, and seeing two legs sticking...
Although two eights have been rowing, there are but eleven regular candidates. The other places have been filled by extra men from the several classes. As the positions have not yet been assigned, the names of the regular candidates are given below in alphabetical order...
...daily change in the personnel of the crew occasioned by the different extra men, makes it impossible to give a fair criticism of the rowing of the men as crews. To say nothing, therefore, of the uniformity of the crew, a few observations are no doubt allowable concerning a few faults common to several of the men. The minor faults of handling the oars in feathering, dipping, in a word, of watermanship, are very serious and only surmountable by longer experience, but the great aim of a crew eight months before its expected race should be to acquire the fundamental...
...will no doubt be a great relief to the excited public to find one journal which has preserved its former equanimity, which in the midst of the storm raging throughout the land, has remained cheerful and unmoved; one journal which has published no conflicting election returns, has issued no extra editions with false bulletins intended to keep up the excitement and a steady sale of the papers, but with a tender regard for the highly strung nerves of its readers has quietly pursued its former business of reporting actual occurrences. Such a journal the students of Harvard college support...