Word: odd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...repeat it in the vain hope that the rulers some time will hear our prayers. Why should not Harvard College fittingly observe this legal holiday? It certainly would be a benefit to all of us, immediately after the midyears, to have a day of rest. Everybody has some odd jobs to be done which have been postponed from day to day, and are never accomplished until vacation comes. One day of rest, too, from the monotonous routine work of this season of the year, would be greeted with that same feeling of sublime relief with which the traveller...
...annual ball of the officers of the Boston School Regiment took place last evening in Odd Fellows Hall. The usual large number was in attendance. The floor was under the management of Col. A. A. Clatur of the Boston Latin School...
...says with the utmost truth that Dr. Hart has perfected his list of general readings at a great expense of time and trouble." This is undoubtedly true, and only adds to the obligation we owe Dr. Hart as a sincere instructor, but isn't it a little odd that he should work so hard to encourage his students in "laziness...
...freshman crew occupy the house together, while the rest of the '89 men live in a little cottage directly across the the way. As you enter the house, across the little sheltered piazza, you come first into the parlor, or rather lounging room, where the men spend their odd moments in playing cards, reading, etc. To the right of this room we come into the dining-room, in which are two long tables, - one for each crew, - and leading out from here is the kitchen, where an enormous negro provides the meals. The other rooms on the ground floor...
...odd coincidence that in both Yale-Princeton games this year, the winning club made four runs in the first inning...