Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notwithstanding the fact that the subject of "plank walks" has been so thoroughly ventilated by the college papers that it must provoke a smile on every face to see it mentioned again, nevertheless we think it our duty to call the attention of the authorities to the wretched condition of the walks between the chapel and Memorial, and between the library and chapel. Even now the mud is several inches deep in some places, and what must we expect when the regular spring thaws come? It seems to us that a great lack of forethought was shown by the authorities...
...this remark Mr. Wilde's face assumed a look of weirdness, an expression of yearning after the infinite...
...bulletin was posted yesterday : "Tickets for admission to the gallery of the hall during meal-hours, are now to be obtained by members of the association on application to the auditor or to the officers of the association. They can be used only on the date specified on their face." Are we to understand by this that a man who does not board at the hall shall be debarred from the privilege of taking his friends into the gallery at meal-time? Such strict application of the rule will certainly prove obnoxious to a large number of men who board...
...fond relish for logomachy; it starts up just a little as if it sniffed the air for scents of strife and combat." Thus spoke my reflective, phrenological self. But my unphrenological, my natural self, exclaimed, "By the six consumptive sons of my goodie, this girl has a pretty face! Wonderfully pretty!" And my poetic heart burst forth into spontaneous verse, and sang low and softly to itself...
...through the holidays, and she wants you to come ever so much. Of course she has not told me so in just so many words. Indeed, when I told her that I should invite you, she asked what difference that made to her; but you should have seen her face when she said it. You'll come...