Word: making
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Affair de la Rue de la Lourcine. This comedy or rather farce, is one of the brightest of the small pieces written by Labiche, and if well put on cannot but be a success. There are five principal characters so it will need quite a number of men to make it a success. All who can should go tonight to hear it and see if there are parts which they think they could take. Upon the energy of the members of the society, depends the success of the spring theatricals...
...homes are in the South and West, But at present it is no very difficult matter for a student so to arrange his work that he can increase his recess a little at each end without seriously interfering with his college duties. The amendment to the college regulations will make it impossible to do this in the future, and the shortness of the vacation must then become a source of great dissatisfaction...
...arrange the details of the race. It was voted that the Harvard club suggest to Tech. the establishment of a regular annual race for a perpetual challenge cup, the cup to be subscribed for jointly by the clubs. The joint committee will meet as soon as possible to make arrangements...
...place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script read at first downwards, but afterwards to the right. The wedges have but three directions, horizontal, perpendicular, or oblique, at an angle of about forty-five degrees. Any given Babylonian writing is composed of a mixture of the signs representing objects with...
...next event was a one-minute round between Dodge and Marquand. Both men had recovered their strength and went at each other as if they were determined to make the best of their short time. Marquand was slightly quicker, but Dodge was surer of his blows and battered his opponent's face steadily. He seemed to have a decided advantage for the first half minute, but Marquand rallied toward the end and got in several telling blows. When time was called, Marquand was exhausted, while Dodge still appeared equal to another round. The judges could not agree, and Dr. Appleton...