Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will you allow me through your columns once more to urge all those interested in the future existence and welfare of the Dining Association to return at once to Memorial. Men can no longer stay away because of cheaper board with better food elsewhere; for there is now a strong guarantee that the price of board at the hall will not exceed $4.25 per week; while the quality of the food is better than ever before, and most certainly superior to any that can be obtained outside at the same price. But this attempt to adapt...
...Lampy, that's not right. We distinctly credited that forlorn joke about gym-jams to the Tiger. Are you afraid to claim it of a Tiger? Besides, the copyright on old jokes never runs longer than six months...
Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...
...York critics do not think as much of Strauss' latest operetta, "The Merry War," as those of Europe. "Strauss," says one writer, "as he shows himself to us in 'Die Lustige Krieg,' is no longer the Strauss of 'Die Fledermaus.' Everything is well written, in a scholarly and artistic manner, the orchestra is discreetly and always elegantly handled; but there is also a nearly total absence of that spontaneity, that musical humor and sparkling freshness, which made 'Die Fledermaus' so delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than...
...undersigned agree to board at Memorial Hall from April 11 for two weeks longer, provided the weekly price of board is kept below $4,25, and provided that four hundred and twenty-five signatures are obtained to this agreement...