Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...held on Tuesday last, and Mr. Wetmore, '75, and Mr. Otis, L. S. S., were appointed to meet the delegates of Yale at New London, on December 15, to arrange the preliminaries of the Yale and Harvard race. The delegates were instructed to vote for Springfield as the place, and the latter part of June as the time for the regatta. No further instructions were given the delegates, but the Executive Committee reserves to itself the power of vetoing any decisions which meet with disapproval...
Simpsonian.JUST as Simpson was going to his place of business on Maumee Street, the other morning, his wife received a telegram stating that her mother was dead, when this dialogue took place...
...holder of the Scholarship shall visit a place or places, determined by the Club, within the regions of ancient culture, to undertake such investigation or exploration as may be practicable. He shall keep a regular journal of his experiences, which shall from time to time be communicated to the Club, shall be their property, and may, if they see fit, be published...
...forms and faces that our taste would choose. But give taste - by taste I mean good taste - fair play, and the result could not fail to be what you would wish. The monotonous athletes, sportsmen, ballet-girls, and shingles which we see to-day would vanish, and in their place would appear pictures which it is a pleasure to possess and at which it is a pleasure to look...
...ability have been induced to accept an office which had been mocked by the nomination of unworthy candidates. Nevertheless, no permanent dignity has been added to the office, for the good sense of the College has been too great to accept the empty language of a complimentary resolution in place of the pure gold of the feeling that no class should go out into the world's struggle and temptation without thanksgiving for the blessings of the past, and earnest, heartfelt prayer for aid in the future. If this feeling is not strong enough in a class to induce...