Word: items
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...runs across an item of news or general interest, they will do ye local editor a favor by bringing it around, for he cannot be on hand when everything happens. [Round Table...
...items a large saving should in my opinion be made in the future. No arrangements should be made to play any extra games in New York or vicinity, unless it is necessary to play off a tie with Yale or Princeton. If this is necessary, let the nine go to New York and play that game and then return without playing any other games. This will be the most convenient and much the most economical arrangement. The Harvard-Yale series should consist of four games, two played in Cambridge and two at New Haven, and only if necessary to play...
...every intelligent person in the United States knows, that the college has departed from its usual custom not on account of his political creed, not on account of the condition or the principles of his supporters, not on account of his qualifications or want of qualifications in the item of learning, but because he is himself a person whose public character and example are inimical to the standards a university is under the highest obligation to approve and inculcate...
...weeks board is known, and for the March of this year was 2076. The amount of bills payable isgot by taking the same fractionable part of the bills payable in February that this number of weeks is of the number of weeks in February, (2,189.) All other items for the twenty-seven days of March are known, and the estimated item is, in all probability...
...contest which usually follows was interrupted by a member of the faculty. The contestants dispersed to their rooms, probably congratulating themselves on the observance of a good old custom. Probably fearing that Yale would derive all the honor of such transactions, the students at Dartmouth determined to make an item also in the college press. We are informed that on Saturday evening one of the professors was "horned," (a custom which we hope is confined to Dartmouth), and windows were broken. On entering chapel Tuesday morning, the faculty found that their seats were nicely smeared with lard. As a result...