Word: fill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...club are please requested to meet, etc." brought together men who are interested in boating to the number of three. One of these resigned his office; and another could be induced to retain his only by the most urgent appeals of the assembled multitude. (No nominations were made to fill the vacancy caused by the gentleman who resigned.) The third gentleman was a member of another club, and merely came to look on. Little business having been done, the meeting adjourned at an early hour...
...able to interest others in it; his absence is certainly not needed to make us recognize his value, and we trust that his health will soon permit him to resume his work among us. Meanwhile the College has been fortunate in securing the services of Mr. George Riddle to fill Professor Baxter's place...
...prattling waters fill...
...have no better place for its library than one of these alcoves. They would thus escape the expense of a room, of gas, and of a librarian, and would have advantages which a separate building could not give them. In this way one of the twelve alcoves could be filled. Then, too, several of our College societies have libraries which they might, perhaps, be willing to use for this purpose. Their books would then be in a fire-proof building, would be properly cared for, and of doubled usefulness. The Yale societies have made such a disposal of their libraries...
...this season of the year, when the undergraduate comes from home laden with the gifts of his fond parents and doting aunts, when tobaccopouches and match-boxes fill his trunks, it is strange that Memorial Hall should be used for lighting friction-matches...