Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...staid and sober Amherst Student, with a number of lesser journals, have all become giddy in their new dresses. They may well be proud, for their appearance is much improved and a certain individuality now attaches to each paper where before they were but one from a throng of plain, scarcely distinguishable exchanges. Meanwhile the Lampoon and several of those mentioned above have changed their colors, but the designs have remained the same...
...Lost-A plain stylographic pen, on the way from North Avenue to University Hall, on Thursday afternoon. Please return to C. R. Saunders, 50 North Avenue...
...room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor-then plain Mr.-Sophocles' door. The usual consequences followed, and on awaking next morning the student had a painful if vague impression of having had an interview with the proctor. Gathering himself together he went down to see what might be effected by an apology. He explained to Mr. Sophocles that...
...funny room, and served him as kitchen, parlor, study and bedroom, all at once. He did not use the small bedrooms except as storehouses for his books and manuscripts. The furniture of the large room was simple in the extreme. Near the small stove was a plain table and two chairs. In one corner, arranged on his large handkerchief spread on the floor, was his clean linen, in another was his small iron bedstead. About the room, especially on the window-seats and mantel, were numerous pots, mortars, pestles, etc., which gave it the appearance of the abode...
...work has been begun at the botanic garden. A field of about three fourths of an acre, in extent, situated just north of Dr. Gray's house not heretofore brought into cultivation as a part of the garden is being transformed into a miniature country of mountain, marsh, and plain, wherein, with the coming of spring, will be represented by growing plants the flora of northeastern America. Little effort will be made to imitate the beauties of nature in waterfalls, grottoes, etc, for such efforts are held to meet with little appreciation in this country. The new topography will...