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Word: lain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instituted as a prize for the spring class races. After '77 for some unaccountable reason it was no longer offered for the class races, and it was not until after considerable inquiring that it was finally found in the safe at the bursar's office where it had lain undisturbed for twenty years. The cup is a large silver goblet inscribed all over with the names of the winning crews from '66-'74. After that time there is no record on it, the names of the winning crews being inscribed on parchment until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEACON CUP. | 4/8/1898 | See Source »

What is now needed to set the University Club project which has lain idle so long squarely on its feet is in the first place of course a show of decided interest on the part of the undergraduates which will assure contributors as to the tangibility of the plan and in the second place something to clinch this tangibility, a sum of money to give it a definite start. The $60,000 which has been subscribed for a Brooks Memorial is 25 per cent. of the sum needed to guarantee the building of this club and it seems only just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 10/16/1897 | See Source »

...infirmary project, which has been so much discussed during the last year, has not lain idle this spring, but is commanding a steadily increasing interest among those who are best able to further it. The work of raising funds, procuring a site, overseeing the plans, etc., has been to a large extent placed in the hands of Dr. C. J. Blake '65, whose letter we publish below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INFIRMARY. | 6/22/1897 | See Source »

...many years, Mr. Appleton at once set about learning the facts of its disappearance. The search involved some correspondence with the college authorities, in whose custody it had always been, and the cup itself was finally found in the safe at the bursar's office, where it had lain undisturbed since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEACON CUP. | 5/14/1897 | See Source »

...most advanced form the "Cambridge idea," he began by ridding the city government of the unclean element with which it had become associated. His excellent administration of the affairs of the city drew attention to him throughout the state. The Democracy, risen from the lethargy in which it had lain for years, now found in him the sterling leader whom it needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL SERVICE. | 10/27/1896 | See Source »

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