Word: gas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...things on it! Why, they're buried in ashes more hopelessly than ever Pompeii was. Our goodies are not "too good," but "satis bonxexigue," which being translated meaneth, "just good enough,"-and few of them reach even that exalted standard. Now, by the gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term! And what's this? 'Board at Harvard Dining Association,' $54,-well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck to the regular feed I couldn't have eaten all those extras...
...Shakespeare Club had great difficulty, it is rumored, in deciding upon a name. Shakespeare Club, Boylston Club, Elocution Club, Harvard Oratorical Society were proposed; then The Gas Bag, The Jones Club, and The Spouting Horn were proposed. A compromise was proposed in the form of "The Shakespeare-Boylston Elocution Club of Oratory and Dramatic Art," which was rejected...
...glad to see that the college authorities have taken a step in the right direction in regard to lighting the entries of the college buildings during the evening. From time to time, the college papers have shown the advisability of having the gas left burning all night in the entries of the dormitories, but until the present time their complaints, and we think them just, have been disregarded. Now, however, the authorities have acceded partially to our request, and the lights are not turned off until after midnight. Although we have not gained all we hoped...
...result of the petition handed in by the students of the north entry of Thayer, to have the gas kept lighted all night has resulted in a general order to have the gas remain burning an hour longer every night throughout all the entries of the college buildings...
Tufts College has been without gas ever since it was founded. The students are now delighted by the fact that the Cambridge Gas Light company is rapidly laying pipes up to the hill, and that they will undoubtedly all be laid before cold weather arrives...