Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the summer several improvements have been made at Memorial. A new ice-chest has been put in at a cost of $400, and a new broiler-added so that the steward is no longer obliged to bake the steaks as was sometimes done...
...next year chapel exercises are to be held in the evening, instead of in the morning, as at present. The change seems to us a most desirable one, especially if the time assigned were immediately before or after dinner. If this were done, attendance at chapel would be no longer regarded as a bugbear; on the contrary, it would become a real pleasure...
...white; fresh store of provisions is being laid in for thirsty souls, and hotel keepers look cheerfully forward to regatta week. But the majority of the people refuse to "enthuse" in the least over the young oarsmen, and it must be acknowledged that college boating men are no longer the popular heroes that they were in the palmy days of the great regattas at Saratoga. Any contest that occurs every year soon assumes the character of an old story for the rapid, irrepressible American, always thirsting for something new. Now that the novelty of college boating has worn...
...Messrs. Allen & Ginter, Richmond, Va. They are manufactured in the best style of the art, and both are a most excellent article. "Opera Puffs" are already well advertised, and are having a large sale. "Our Little Beauties" are a pressed cigarettee, and are fast becoming popular. They last longer and smoke cooler than round made goods, and there is no taste of paper in the mouth. They can be found in all stores selling smokers' goods...
...principal fun of the evening, however, was the presentation of the sophomore fence to the freshmen. A very witty speech (for Yale) was made by A. E. Wilder for the sophomores, and an equally witty one for the freshmen by E. L. Richards. So now Yale, '85, reposes no longer on the cold, cold ground, but sits gleefully on a good, substantial board fence. Although it may be a little out of place in a Harvard paper, still we would like to make the suggestion to Yale that, if she must sit on the fence, it would be much more...