Word: hands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets $20,000 and Tufts College $10,000 by the will of Thomas O. P. Burnham, the Boston second-hand bookseller, who had a bookstall for so many years under the Old South Church. On the outside, at least, his bookstall was a most unpretentious affair, out of which it seemed possible that a thrifty person might get a modest living; but Mr. Burnham found more in it than that, for his estate exceeded $600,000,- all left for charitable or for public uses...
...Place the name, the date, the course and the subject on the back of the last sheet, in the upper right hand corner...
Pratice at 4.30. sharp. Everyone be on hand...
...regular fall tennis tournament will begin on Monday, Oct. 14. The entries will close on Saturday. In order to insure a successful tournament, it is hoped by the committee in charge that a large number of men will hand in their names with the initiation fee before Saturday night at Leavitt and Peirce...
Argan is a rich man, who, desirous to have in his family a doctor always at hand, who might attend upon him in his pretended ailments, intends to give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...