Word: odd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informed that but fifty odd men have paid up their subscriptions to the Reading-Room Association. Those who have given their names as subscribers should without delay pay the small fee required for membership. The leading dailies, and as many of the prominent periodicals and magazines as the limited means of the association can afford, have already been placed in the reading-room, and the room itself is well heated, but there seems to be, so far, a lack of appreciation on the part of the college in general. Certainly the least to be done by those who have signified...
...seems destined to break the old tradition that "even" classes are not usually as prominent in college enterprises and athletics as the "odd" ones. '84 has already done much towards that end, while it must be said '85 has done little to counteract this result. Either '85 must "brace," or, when '83 has graduated, all honors will rest with...
...Swiss Family Robinson," by Owen Wister, which many will remember as a very bright travestry in the Lampoon last year, has been published in a neat form by Mr. Sever. The local hits are very clever, and the little work well deserves a place as an odd piece of literary bric-a-brac in every student's library...
Champion L. E. Myers has given up business for the time and gone into strict training for his matches with Mr. George. The American is directing his efforts to the mile race, realizing that that will be the odd event...
Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...