Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rates, than did the Thayer Club; not only are purchases now made on better terms, but the waste is proportionately smaller. The ability of the present steward in the purchase and executive duties of his office has been the subject of special commendation from the Directors' committee, and the ground for improvement seems now to lie wholly in some petty details of catering, - annoying, it is true, but easily remedied when pointed out in particular, instead of declaimed about in general...
Aside from the sentiment manifested in assembling the other classes with the Seniors for the last time, it would be hardly generous to shut out the other classes from the ground, since there is room for but few of them on the seats without excluding fairer guests. It would be well, however, as has been suggested, for the Class Day Committee to ask the lower classes to hold a meeting and agree to give up the rush...
...arrangement of tables makes reading in the Library and consulting the vast number of "reserved books" more practicable. We understand that ground will be broken for the addition to Gore Hall early in the coming spring...
...have it in earnest, and there is usually plenty of snow, ice, ay, and cold; we don't very often have any of your Boston half-and-half winters, where it is so cold that you cannot keep warm when there is not a "mite" of snow on the ground. Are you not ashamed of yourselves when you see these moonlight nights - in January, let me remind you - going by without the enjoyment of a single sleigh-ride, or anything else which winter should bring...
...fine slate roof now being placed on Memorial Hall will, when completed, contain the following inscription in Hebrew: The day is short, the reward is great, the laborers are few, the Master urges." It will be set in the slate, blue on red ground, with gilt marks of accent and gilt stars, and other ornamentation. - Union Spectator...