Word: person
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Reward. The above reward will be paid to any person that may bring a garment to my Tailoring Department stained, and I fail to remove it. Mr. John Rogers, whose ability as a first-class cutter needs no comment, has charge of the tailoring department, the only place in Cambridge where the original Blenheim 4 Button Cutaway, Sack and Jalva Sleeve Overcoat can be got up. Pants a specialty. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard Street...
...Reward. The above reward will be paid to any person that may bring a garment to my Tailoring Department stained, and I fail to remove it. Mr. John Rogers, whose ability as a first-class cutter needs no comment, has charge of the tailoring department, the only place in Cambridge where the original Blenheim 4 Button Cutaway, Sack and Jalva Sleeve Overcoat can be got up. Pants a specialty. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard Street...
...putting toast, nutmeg and sugar into ale. To drink supernaculum was an ancient custom in England of emptying the cup or glass and then pouring the remaining drop or two upon the finger nail; for what purpose, is not known. "To buzza one," was a term used to a person who hesitated to empty a bottle that was nearly out. "Under the Rose," a term now used for anything said confidentially at a social gathering took its rise from a custom of wearing chaplets of roses at conuivial entertainments, where, as there were many things said which would not bear...
...students this year in comparison with previous years, yet the disadvantages of a large number of men wanting the same books have not yet been done away with. It ought, therefore, to be in the mind of every man who uses the library, that he is not the only person in existence who is likely to want any particular book. There are very few men who are so thoroughly self-engrossed that they forget this fact; but we have heard of some, we regret to say, who, ensconcing themselves behind a huge pile of reserved books and settling down...
...shells. Beef may be advantageous in the rushline of a foot-ball team, and I believe no doubt it is, but I certainly believe boating authorities make a great error in paying so much attention to weight. Naturally a heavy man possessed of proportionally increased strength is a desirable person, but I have often noticed that college crews pay more attention to securing men of weight than to an investigation of the sinew which the candidates may possess...