Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reply to the gentleman who favores an assessment for the Co-operative society, we can only say that the reasons for and against such a measure were fully discussed at the meeting on Monday evening. The majority not in favor of an assessment was large, and the question was definitely settled in the negative. One of the best arguments brought against an assessment was that many members would not pay, could not then be said to belong, and ceasing to purchase, would cripple the effectiveness of the society. This refusal to pay would leave the amount to be received very...
...week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied to a door knob in Thayer and went off, scorching the door, and covering the floor with burning wadding. The same day, a gentleman, while pouring coal on his fire was surprised and alarmed by an explosion which scattered his fire to some distance; and on making investigations, he found that gun powder had been placed in his coal. He is naturally very indignant, and vows vengence on the perpetrators of the joke. These...
...February number of Harper's Magazine contains a very interesting article on the great Lick Observatory of California, which, when completed, will contain the largest telescope in the world. The gentleman who contributed the money for this great undertaking, and for whom the observatory is named, was a Mr. Lick, a California capitalist. Up to 1873 he was known to the public only as a shrewd business man of a retiring and rather eccentric nature. In that year he surprised everyone by making over his entire fortune to a board of trustees to be expended for public and scientifle purposes...
...gentleman who took by mistake the wrong hat from Memorial Hall, last Thursday, may effect an exchange by applying to the auditor...
...inmates of the middle entry of Thayer who rushed out of their rooms at half past eleven o'clock last Friday night with the thought that a tragedy was occurring in the entry, were disappointed. They found only the remains of a large common cracker which some gentleman with a keen sense of humor had exploded on the third landing...