Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard, which have been today as so often before, covered with slush and water, against which rubber boots alone are proof. Were these thoroughfares public ones the college authorities would be guilty of violation of city ordinances. Should absence of compulsion keep the powers that be from doing their plain duty towards the students...
...successful reporter ought to have all of these qualities, - health, temperance, observation, strong memory, accuracy, pluck, and tact. Health is indispensable for the hard, irregular, and worried life. Without temperance, a reporter never can inspire his superior with confidence. To gather his news he must have observation, that is plain; there are circumstances when a strong memory is the only means for retaining it, and that will become equally plain through experience. Accuracy is one of the rarest and yet certainly the most valuable traits of the able reporter. The habit must be so impressed upon him that not even...
...work on the new Yale Medical School building is progressing rapidly and it is expected that the building will be completed before commencement. It is a plain three-story brick structure, forty by seventy feet in dimension. The building will be devoted to the department of chemistry and physiology and will nearly double the capacity of the school. On the first floor are two working laboratories in chemistry, one being devoted to general chemistry and the other to medical chemistry. The first floor also contains students' working laboratories and stock-rooms. The second floor is given up to lecture rooms...
...various departments outside the college proper will be allowed to compete, the points they may win not being counted toward the class championship. Each year the name of the class winning the greatest number of points will be engraved on the cup, which has been left entirely plain for that purpose...
Geological Conference. Mr. A. H. Brooks, "Felsite Occurrences in England;" Mr. F. P. Gulliver. "The Newtonville Sand-plain"; Mr. H. Landes. Report of Rock Collection in New Jersey," Geological Laboratory...