Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then, and then acting as if they were scared to death over it. Now, the idea of blowing up the beech tree! Why any fool could do that. Besides, that is mean, for it could never be replaced. Now, if they should blow up a college building money would fix that all right, but the idea of harming a tree! I'd like to catch them at it once." At this point our policeman host was obliged to leave and go out on his beat. Thanking him for his interesting talk, and for his kind invitation to "call again...
...anti-polygamy bill has been passed in the Senate after a long debate. The House, after much discussion and some excitement, agreed to fix the new representation at 325 members...
...encounter is the presence among the candidates for his team or crew of men who are actuated in their candidacy not by any desire for the good of the College, but by mere personal vanity. We do not intend to go into an elaborate discussion, and attempt to fix the proportion which such vanity may rightly hold in each man's motives. But it is manifest that in athletics, where the co-operation of numbers is necessary, some stronger and, if we may say so, higher motive than this is the indispensable requisite of success. We would not discourage...
...learn, on the best authority, that a race with Columbia, which has been talked of in several papers, is by no means a fixed affair. The rumor was premature, for nothing has yet been done to fix a race...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - 7.45 P.M. This evening and Saturday matinee, Mr. Warren in Boucicault's amusing play, "Daddy O'Dowd," and Mr. Barron in "A Regular Fix." Saturday evening, Mrs. Vincent's benefit, "A Ticket of Leave Man." Monday next, "Daddy O'Dowd," with an extra matinee...