Word: lots
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frederick H. Ringe of Cambridge has announced his intention of giving the ground and building for a Public Library. The lot is bounded by Broadway, Trowbridge, Irving and Cambridge streets...
...complaint which we occasionally hear about the uselessness of bothering about it, which then results in selecting a lot of heterogeneous work, clearly arises from idleness and a lack of recognition of the responsibility which rests on a man's shoulders in this matter. This feeling, fortunately, obtains in a very meagre proportion of the students and is sure to be condemned by all the rest...
...Those are the college boys playing base-ball," remarked the female cicerone to her visiting friend as the Garden street horse car passed by the Common, where a decidedly seedy looking lot of town boys, with a negro at the bat, were indulging in the national game. "I wonder the teachers don't have their trousers mended," said the visitor reflectively; "the poor boys have no mothers to do it for them! Couldn't the girls in the Annex find time to do a little sewing for the lads?" - Cambridge Chronicle...
There is no question that the predominance of the Cambridge "muckers" both large and small was manifest night before last. Several forays and assaults it was our lot to witness and most assuredly they were begun, although perhaps not carried to a finish by half-grown men who had not yet learned what it was to mind their own business. That some efficient means should be employed for the prevention of such performances in the future, no one can sincerely doubt; yet how can the desired end be accomplished. The athletic committee is probably the proper executive for these duties...
...order of speakers in determined by lot...