Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Monday lunch has been kept the same as of last year, because it was found to be necessary, as long as the price of board was not certainly below $4.00. The meeting held last Friday, decided to have a committee investigate and see what consistent improvement could be made in the Monday lunch. It was too late to make any change for last Monday, so the committee took action for next Monday. Your criticism on this point was therefore premature...
Assuming then, not the braving of young Lochinvar, but that of a bookagent, one may reach the entrance of the building in safety; and, if by some freak of fortune the name of the new comer corresponds with a name on the list-that is kept for ready reference in the office of the faculty-he is admitted...
...exorbitant charges which formerly prevailed at Cambridge, and that, inspired by the success of co-operation, as shown by the great reduction in prices secured by our society, they determined to found one of their own. The effect of this action was immediate. The local tradesmen who had formerly kept prices up to a most unfair standard by their concerted action, were compelled to make immediate reductions. In fact, the leading book-sellers advertised the works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded the year previous to the formation of the society...
...though Cambridge no longer echoes the songs of a returning theatre-party of freshmen, the custom is still kept up by student-kind in Australia...
...actually molded a glass without its being broken; and so at last the disk, the one vital organ of a telescope, is completed. The construction of the delicate yet powerful machinery, by which the tube sixty feet long is to be pointed toward any part of the heavens, and kept in motion by clock work, has not yet been commenced. However, the completion of this machinery is only a question of time, and when every thing is finished Lick Observatory will have the largest and most powerful telescope in the world...