Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Radcliffe the number of students in 1895-96 showed a gain of 74 over the previous year. Thirty-one students received a degree last June, of which only eight took the plain degree without distinction. The College needs several substantial buildings, adapted to their uses...
Yesterday the Class Day Committee respectfully submitted this plan to the Corporation committee, only to have it entirely rejected. It then became plain that from the first the Corporation had resolved upon the total abolishment of the time honored custom. Our class has been doubly aggrieved. Our opinions were asked for, and when offered were rejected without hesitation, and a custom which we all love is to be torn away from us. Further discussion of the objections of the Corporation is out of place, they have already been considered and, we believe, fairly...
...these advantages could not be obtained without an infirmary on a good financial basis. That I think is evident. It is plain, too, that no scheme that has yet been suggested is so well calculated to put it on such a basis as the five dollars a year scheme. The Corporation has no funds available for running such an institution. A plan of support which gives the authorities confidence will facilitate getting this much needed building, and is not this plan such a one? It would, beyond doubt, raise a sum entirely adequate for the yearly expenses of the infirmary...
...there. This year the New England Fish Commission, in recognition of past services, has given a room on the wharf to the association. During the past weeks this room has been furnished with chairs and tables and provided with papers, periodicals, games, etc., the object being to provide a plain, attractive sort of club room for the fishermen. From time to time it is proposed to have informal entertainments of one kind or another, music, smoke talks, or stereopticon views. There will be no religious services conducted in this room except on Sunday mornings, when the services of the past...
...game may be found in the Badminton volumes on Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets and Fives. The history of the game, in the same volume, should convince every intelligent sportsman that the "pepper boxes" should be restored. In England the stone "pepper box" court is gradually superceding the plain court. At all events, if there is any love of sport here as distinguished from galley slavery, the Carey Building should be thrown open during the winter months...