Word: offs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"If any make tumultuous, troublesome, or indecent noises to the dishonor or disturbance of the College, or town, or any of its inhabitants; or without the leave of the Immediate Government, shall make bonfires, or illuminations, or play off fireworks, or be in any way aiding or abetting the same...
Columbia.- The Second Annual Ball for the benefit of the Boat Club comes off at Delmonico's on the 16th of January.
We have become thoroughly out of patience with "the thing," - it is so vague and unsatisfactory, - and have determined to leave off trying to discover what it is, and to devote ourselves to grinding for the semiannuals.
"Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard...
Here the conversation wandered off to expenses, students' rooms, decorative art, and so on.