Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Wednesday night, at a meeting of the Directors of Memorial Hall numerous complaints relative to the quality of the food and the style of cooking were considered. As these complaints were promptly brought to the notice of the steward, we may hope that there will be a much needed improvement...
...this way chance influences the result in a smaller degree. Furthermore, the advantage derived by the home club from a knowledge of the grounds would be lessened if two games instead of one were played on home grounds. The days and dates for the games were as follows : Saturday, May 18, first game, in New Haven ; Saturday, May 25, second game, in Cambridge ; Monday, June 24, third game, in New Haven; Wednesday, June 26, fourth game in Cambridge; the day following the boat-race for the fifth game, and the place either Hartford or Providence. In case either nine wins...
...around each Monday morning and collect the petitions. It is a simple task, for, although at first he must knock at each door, he would soon learn what rooms he needed specially to visit, and could tell almost by intuition the men who had petitions. This may seem but a trifling suggestion, but as it concerns the comfort of so many we gladly make...
...would be natural to expect that men who had themselves experienced the difficulties attendant upon a midyear grind would so far appreciate the " demnitionness" of it as to allow others privileges they may choose to deny themselves. At twelve o' clock P. M., with the prospect of four hours' steady work before me, and with the (at another time) joyful sound of revelry in the room below me, I waive all respect of persons, and protest against the fiends of the north entry of Matthews, who prevent my neighbors and myself from doing necessary work. I had supposed, it seems...
Whatever he may...