Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Boos, N F, Jamaica Plain...
Gibbons, S, Jamaica Plain...
...their circle of operations. They have sent to each member of the senior class a circular asking for contributions of furniture, books, and pictures. Moreover, they have bought twenty complete sets of furniture at an expense of one thousand dollars, or fifty dollars a set. These sets are necessarily plain, but as substantial and serviceable as anybody could desire. Each set will be loaned for a year on deposit of $7.50, of which $2.50 will be given back at the end of the college year, provided that the furniture is returned in good condition, or that the lease is renewed...
Robert Gould Shaw was simple, manly, steadfast, affectionate and humane to the last degree; his ambition was to do his plain duty...
...columns for a number of months. "The Decadence of Mr. Arthur Helmer," though it can appeal to none but a Harvard man, is a vivid and accurate character study far more thorough than one generally finds in college writing. It is photographic in its accuracy, and the style, though plain, is incisive at every stage...