Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New York City, at the Theatre of the Union League Club, Monday, May 8, at 8 o'clock. Tickets can be procured by addressing Montgomery D. Parker, 21 Brevoort Place, or at G. P. Putnam's Sons, Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue. Price, two dollars. Committee: M. D. Parker, F. G. Ireland, E. Szemelenyi, H. H. Crocker, Thomas Kinnicutt, F. M. Weld, F. R. Appleton...
...fourth protests against changing the hours of prayers and recitations, the writer being evidently averse to early rising...
...large that if it forms in a single ring, during the Class-Day exercises about the tree, it will interfere with the seats erected for the ladies. At the same time, if a single class were permitted to form two rings, and to occupy two fifths instead of one fourth of the attention of the assembled company, a distinction utterly inconsistent with the democratic principles of the community would be made in its favor. The Class-Day Committee, therefore, finding themselves in a dilemma of which neither horn promises to afford general satisfaction, have been considering the expediency of altogether...
...Cornell Navy, according to the same publication, is a trifle "over-confident," and needs to "brace up," "to use the polished rhetoric of Yale." The finances of the Navy seem to need "bracing up" too. The "Fourth Annual Navy Ball" occurred the other night, but comparatively few ladies were present, a number being kept away by "Miss Flora McFlimsey's reasons," and some others possibly being afraid to leave their rooms for fear of "stacking...
...double sculls were common property, one could be sure of finding a boat in, or, at the worst, of having to wait only a few minutes before one of the number would be returned. A Holworthy man could not then complain that he was paying fifteen dollars for one fourth the accommodations given to a Holyoke member; the trouble of four different organizations would be avoided, and with it the inevitable necessity of continual changes in the limits, if the clubs are to be fairly equal in size...