Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...superintendent were dismissed, and a clerk or so hired in his place, expensed for the rest of the year, and in future, would be $300 or less. Mr. Taussig moved that the society be left open for two weeks longer, in hopes of raising the $600 in the mean time. It was carried unanimously. Meanwhile $67 was subscribed on the floor, and swelled the subscription fund to $417. After much discussion, Mr. Merriam moved that the subscription to join the society for the rest of the year be made $1.50, and the cheap opportunity to get the benefits...
...boards come in for their share too. Many times we have read them from top to bottom with their notices of Union debates, of games and sports, of tutoring, and of articles for sale. The bulletin boards come to be regarded as a part of the hall itself, I mean, an important part. Next in memory will come the throng of news boys at the entrance-"Record, sir? only one cent." "Herald, Journal, Transcript, and Star." Then there are the theatre stairs in the transept, famous for being the rostrum of that orator so noted among college men, the great...
...consequently, seeing the society in danger of dying at the beginning of next year, (and the society has been in such danger at the beginning of every year) or making a bold push this year, running risks, offering superior inducements and better facilities, in which case success would mean that the society was permanently on its legs. They took the risk, hoping the students would respond to increased facilities. The students did not respond as heartily as was hoped ; the business, and the receipts from fees have consequently not been so large as was hoped ; and the expenses have been...
...Obrien I assure you we mean you no harm, quite to the contrary...
...lite things git covered up with dust, they disappears so gradual loike that they arn't noticed when they gits all buried. Thin, sor, we just exhumes 'em, and takes 'em, sor. It's quite an art, sor, this buryin' and exhumin'. But thin, I didn't mean ter till this to the loike o' you, sor. You won't till nobody...