Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...desire to have their rooms photographed can have them done reasonably by Mr. Lewis, 33 River Street. The rate charged is $3 the half-dozen...
...anticipated as sure to bring inconvenience. The vote is cast, but before we relapse into "humble acquiescent silence," we would suggest how one cause of complaint might be done away with, bringing little or no inconvenience to the domestic economy of Memorial Hall. At present lunch is from half past twelve to half past one; the students who come out of recitation at twelve are obliged to waste a half-hour before lunch, or at least to employ such a small space of time to little advantage. This half-hour is of some importance to those who have recitations early...
THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...
...Yale Courant complains that the Faculty have sent notes of warning - resembling our "publics" - to the parents of every Senior who has failed to obtain on his first half-year's work 2.50, which appears to be about half the maximum mark. The Courant thinks the Faculty very inconsiderate of the feelings of the families of the unfortunate students; and it quotes from sundry parental letters recently received by Yale men, to the effect: "Don't disgrace us all"; "Is this the return for the money I have laid out on your education...
...first contest on the programme was the running high jump; the entries being Messrs. Hall, '76, and Hubbard, '78. Both contestants succeeded in clearing the rope at five feet one and a half inches, but failed at five feet two inches; a tie was therefore declared, but the judges awarded the prize to Mr. Hall, as he jumped in the best form...