Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will place the whole management of the boats and boat-house in the hands of the club officers. The result of this will be that boats will be more regularly repaired, and better taken care of, all complaints and desired changes will be more readily attended to, and the ownership of the boats will bring with it an additional interest in boating. We will remind our readers that they are not asked to subscribe money for an indefinite purpose, but to join an association from which they may derive much pleasure...
...artistic a character that they could not fail to command the respect of all true lovers of the aesthetic. Windows furnished the favorite mode of entrance and exit, daylight or darkness suited the interlopers, and, in one instance at least, a hand-to-hand fight settled the ownership of valuable articles of clothing. The next year we dwelt in greater security, but last year the losses were severe and numerous; watches were stolen from the Gymnasium and from the Boat-house, and clothing from a good many rooms. This year, too, a valuable carpet has been stolen from a room...
...victim of such a fellow once. He would drop in after breakfast, just to take a smoke, and as a matter of course read the morning paper first. Thinking possession as good as ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this appropriation I "deaded" or "fizzled," he expressed the liveliest sympathy for my mishap, and would offer the consoling advice that I ought to study harder. There was something strange about the fact that the day after I received a check he would invariably want to borrow a little money...