Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ONLY four members of the adjoining sisterhood take the whole course, and three of these are daughters of Unitarian ministers...
...much; fifteen to the crew, ten for a supper in town last week, and four dollars for pool today. Of course I can't put down the two last, as, if there is anything that the head of the family abominates, it is after-theatre suppers and billiard-halls. As for the rest of the money, I don't know where it's gone. You don't suppose I go round with a little book in my pocket, and every time I treat a fellow to Vichy, put down 'Vichy (treat to Jack) 10 cts.' I am not so miserly...
...first Philharmonic Concert will be given in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday evening, the 18th. Among the selections for the programme will be the Overture to Ruy Blas, by Mendelssohn; Beethoven's Eighth Symphony; Overture to Lohengrin, by Wagner. Single tickets, one dollar; six tickets, four dollars...
TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...
ALTHOUGH last Friday was by no means a favorable day for the Bicycle meeting, about three or four hundred persons assembled on Jarvis Field to witness the races...