Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Passing in at Memorial today I noticed but one forlorn umbrella standing in the racks in the transcept, while inside the dining-hall I found a number of umbrellas ranged along the walls beneath the coats and hats of their owners. The reason of this condition of affairs is plain. The racks stand outside, unprotected and alone, and men will not risk exposing their property to the danger of theft or easy misappropriation by leaving their umbrellas here. Too many cases have already occurred of umbrellas disappearing and of their owners being unable to regain them. Thus it has come...
...person who carefully compares the statements of the two papers, it will be very plain that the Crimson draws a little on its imagination in speaking for the Advocate. There is nothing in the Advocate editorial referred to which warrants the Crimson in making its statement, and the Advocate in a late number denies it. The Advocate's position is easily tenable. But there is no doubt that the Crimson's indignation runs away with its discretion. The position it takes is not at all defensible. It is ridiculous to say that a paper is "in no wise responsible...
...second Curtis Hall assembly (Jamaica Plain) occurs tonight...
...first Curtis Hall (Jamaica Plain) german was given last night...
...place gained by the eleven in the inter-collegiate foot-ball games this fall, under the existing circumstances, cannot deserve any complaint and dissatisfaction. Never before have the then leading elevens been more evenly matched and whatever criticisms the play of the victors may have evoked it was plain that by their superior muscular development and combined methods they fairly deserved the place they hold. With the chances apparently against us at the commencement of the championship season, and with a low place on the scale virtually assigned to us, our team steadily improved until at last they secured...