Word: flag
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE. - "The Black Flag." Every evening...
GLOBE THEATRE. - "The Black Flag." Every evening...
...students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved on the marble tablets which line the transept; not a flag floated in the breeze. Memorial Hall had another object besides that of a memorial; it was intended to educate the youth of Harvard College in patriotism. We cannot help asking if to disregard the laws of the State which made yesterday a legal holiday, to neglect on that...
...extensive establishment with a six inch well of thirty feet in depth. There are three or four other artesian wells in Cambridge, none of which run over sixty feet in depth. As the ground where the university now stands was at one time a marsh, producing an abundance of flag-root, it is highly probable that water could be obtained not far from the surface anywhere within the yard. An investigation of the above plan would certainly be desirable, since all the facts so far ascertained in regard to it indicate its feasibility...
...whole side of University. Of course any one could have thought of that, but it required lots of nerve to do it, and do it in such a way as to escape detection. At another time they were going to have a big time here putting up the flag-pole. They were going to put up the pole on the morning of the Fourth of July, and left it lying on the ground the night of the third. A party of students went there that night, and painted the whole length of it with green paint. They put an inscription...