Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other day, as I was walking up one of the aisles of Memorial Hall at the dinner hour, and trying to get some idea of our bill-o'-fare from the dishes on the tables right and left, I caught snatches of topics that seemed appropriate for any place but the dinner-table. At one table there was going on an excited discussion over the solution of oblique triangles, at another I heard a man quoting Whately verbatim, and before I reached my seat unpleasant associations connected with sulphuretted hydrogen and cyanide of potassium were suggested by an embryo chemist...
...behavior of some of the students at the Post-Office on Sundays has lately given rise to considerable annoyance; not patient enough to take their place in line and ask in their turn for their letters, they must needs elbow their way up to the front and get some friend to ask for them. The line is thus often kept motionless for two or three minutes, while one man is asking for the host of friends standing around. The matter seems scarcely worth calling attention to, since it is presumably the result of thoughtlessness, and not of a determination...
Some one has defined civilized communities as those where one can get a good beefsteak; and as this article is rarely found east of Boston, the state of civilization that exists at Orono can be easily imagined...
...have been requested to state that the Boston Transcript's story, that Professor Paine is endeavoring to get a boy choir from the Cambridge schools for the services in the Chapel, is as false as most of the College news that the Boston papers give their readers...
There is another reason why the college rents are at present not too high. It is that every man has a right to get what price he can for his property, and as long as the rooms are regularly let at the present prices, it would be folly in the College to decrease them. Expensive rooms are provided for the wealthy, and comfortable, but plain ones for the poorer students. It frequently happens, too, that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that...