Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resolutions adopted by the students were empty words or would go for that; the only way for the students to make it perfectly plain that the outrages of Saturday were never to be repeated was to go to work vigorously to ferret out the offenders. Morever the action taken by the students Monday night was approved by the public press and apparently by the people at large. To fail to carry out the intentions of the previous meeting was tantamount to backing down from our position...
...Friday morning considers the crew management responsible for the lack of success of the Glee Club concert on Tuesday. The truth of the matter is that the Glee Club have treated the crew very shabbily in not giving the concert before, when more people were in town. The Jamaica Plain and Cambridge concerts, too, drew away from the audience on Tuesday. As to the concert not begin advertised, I happen to know that circulars were sent to all the houses on the Back Bay and notices published in all the daily papers, etc. The night was rainy and disagreeable; most...
...examination for the state scholarship at Cornell will be held on June 7. Candidates must be at least 16 years old and of six months standing in the common schools or academies of the state during the present year. The examination will cover English grammar, geography, physiology, arithmetic, plain geometry and algebra through quadratic equations...
...Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs give a concert next Friday evening in Jamaica Plain...
...Scandinavian stories to us is the one in which a great flood covers the earth and eagles hunt for fish on the tops of tall mountains. Finally the waters ran off the green lands in torrents and left a regenerated world. In fact, the influence of Christianity is plain in many other of the latter beliefs and legends of the ninth and tenth centuries when the end of the world was momentarily expected...