Word: new
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...student seeking amusement after his sumptuous dinner at Memorial Hall, the Rifle Corps, which appears on Holmes Field, in its new uniform, every Monday evening, offers a spectacle at once pleasing and edifying. Some persons, who used to drill in the Boston School Regiment when they were little boys, are inclined to make invidious comparisons, but of course such comparisons are entirely out of place. It has not been decided yet when the Corps will "go into camp," but it is generally understood that Chelsea is the spot selected...
Athletic Association of American Colleges. - This meeting will be held at Mott Haven, New York, on May 18, and we suggest to the Harvard Association that, as it is now very rich, and we never have been properly represented at these sports, it take some decided steps in the matter. Let it hold a meeting on Holmes Field (where a very good fifth-mile track can be made) on May 15; let the winners of the mile-run, mile-walk, quarter-mile, half-mile, hurdles, and 100-yards be sent to Mott Haven on condition of their beating a certain...
...songs new-comers wildly sing...
...Ahem! For New England, partly cloudy weather, followed by increasing cloudiness and rain areas, variable winds, mostly from the north-east, falling barometer and stationary temperature," promptly responded the Bulletin Board, in a voice that told me not to bother him with useless questions. Before I could say anything more I saw in the distance four individuals, so lean and lank that I thought they must have some connection with Memorial Hall; and, in fact, they proved to be the Gargoyles from the tower. Following them came the two Pumps, who extended to me their handles, and shook hands...
...What will people outside think?" interrupted the Gargoyles. "They won't give any more money for new halls, if prayers are abolished...