Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have already said too much and yet I have a practical plan for the improvement of murders to propose, and some remarks to make on the proper place for a murder. Gentlemen of the Magenta, you must grant me another audience at some future time; at present I will only add that I have on hand two finished designs, which I shall be happy to communicate to any worthy person. The first is for the killing of a venerable gentleman, high in position, universally respected and disliked. The other has in view the murder of a flute-player. The first...
...return of the expedition, almost the last skirmish took place near Porter's Station, where six citizens of Cambridge were killed. Their bodies were brought down, and hastily buried in the old graveyard...
...there no way of altering the too sanguinary exterior of our halls? The Cubans paint their buildings yellow, pink, or blue, with variously tinted roofs; but this would give our staid dormitories a bizarre appearance, out of place in our northern climate, although, indeed, they might be dyed magenta, to match our crockery. There is, however, one improvement which we earnestly advocate, namely, the more lavish employment of woodbine or ivy. A brick building overgrown with ivy has a most venerable and even picturesque appearance. Of course, ivy could not be trained over the dormitories; but over the ends...
...first Theatrical Entertainment for the benefit of the Harvard Boat Club took place at Horticultural Hall last evening. The house was crowded with a most enthusiastic and appreciative audience. The programme consisted of a comedietta, entitled "A Happy Pair," and the burlesque, "William Tell with a Vengeance." Messrs. Bowditch and Shaw, '75, took part in the comedietta, and rendered the witty and sparkling dialogue with unusual vivacity and naturalness. The abrupt change of manner, in both roles, was particularly well done; and the acting of both gentlemen was accompanied with remarkable ease of manner...
...Took place upon a Friday night...