Word: lots
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the white walls makes a very neat contrast. In the basement are six rooms for the janitor's use, where he will live. Hot and cold water, stationary book-cases and cherry finishings are luxuries for which the students of Harvard sigh, but sigh in vain. A Spartan lot is ours...
...However, out of courtesy, our present committee thought such a committee might be temporarily appointed, but not until there was something for them to confer about, that is not until the challenge had been accepted in the usual manner. And this is certainly reasonable, for why should a lot of men get together to discuss something about which there is no certainty, something which, indeed, may be a well founded supposition, yet which is none the less a supposition...
...kitchen below. In company with several other men at my table in like predicament, I waited and waited until patience was exhausted. At last, about 9.30, the waiter reported that Mr Balch had declined to provide anything more and that therefore there was nothing for us. One very small lot of provisions had been sent up in the interval, which failed to satisfy the wants of more than two or three men, while the desires of the much larger number remained unsatisfied. In this manner a considerable number of men who came in at the end of the hour were...
...Lot M. Morrill died at Augusta, Me., yesterday, aged sixty-eight years...
There is something almost pathetic in Yale's present attitude. Condemned by Princeton, Columbia and Harvard, seriously accused by the first, mildly warned by the second, and soundly rated by the third, her lot is not a happy one. There are, we suspect, in this business, a number of very important morals lying hid, that our erring sister would do very well to take to heart. Yet Yale's favorite and traditional attitude is a belligerent one, and we doubt very much if she will take it all with any very good grace; rather, we are led uncharitably to suspect...