Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HALF-WAY down the interior of one of our old brick halls stands a dingy wooden table with numerous square-cornered cells bearing various sorts of journals and a dilapidated heap of Punch in the midst. The Hall is Massachusetts; the interior is the reading-room; and a virgin octavo, lying on the table, is familiar to but few undergraduates, under the title of the New-Englander. On my occasional visits to the hall aforesaid, I seldom fail to turn down the leaves of the New-Englander, for the sake of passing through the sleepy obscurity which marks the pages...
...Courant is much troubled because knickerbockers have made their appearance here. It reprovingly remarks that "Cambridge men have now the reputation of affecting the swell," and tells us, in another column, that in New Haven "three-and-a-half-inch paper collars are all the rage...
...benefit of the Boat Club will take place at Horticultural Hall, Thursday and Friday evenings, and Saturday afternoon, April 27, 28, and 29. Two burlesques and three farces will be given, each performance consisting of a burlesque, preceded by a farce. Performances to begin at eight and half past two. Tickets may now be obtained at No. 45 Weld...
...amusing way of doing nothing to sit in one's room half dozing, and listen to the steps that come along the entry on their way to the rooms overhead. It is quite an instructive occupation too, presenting, as it does, a wide field for the cultivation of the listening faculty. In the course of a dozen or two such sittings, one gets to know the peculiarities of each individual step, and recognizes the passer-by as clearly as though the partition were transparent. When I hear various preliminary kicks at, and slams of, the neighboring doors, a shuffling step...
WHEN New Yorkers are asked what has kept them out till half past twelve, they blandly reply, "Ben to 'vival Moosy an' Sansey (hic)." - Index...