Word: muslin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...like a morgue than like a fete. We have had the Tree for a long time and have never had a fire, but every year there are a number of drunks there who insist on smoking and who might easily leave a lighted match where it could set a muslin skirt afire. That this danger is considerable, perhaps more considerable than we realize, seems possible from the fact that I have heard from several different sources of graduates, who had got very nervous on this account...
People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...
...Secretary of the Interior that all persons desiring a map of the United States may obtain one from the Interior department by paying $1.25 which is the cost of publication. These maps have been published recently and are 5.5 x 6.5 feet. They are on paper backed by muslin and are intended for wall maps. No one person is allowed more than one map. Remit by postal note or money order payable to the Disbersing Clerk, Dep't. of Interior, Washington...