Word: plank
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...move, Mr. President," said a venerable and benevolent-looking professioner, "that the entire sum be expended in plank walks, in order that the students may attend morning prayers and recitations in bad weather without danger of taking cold...
...Marking Machine! Since Edison's great discoveries and inventions we have been prepared for something still more marvellous, but did the most imaginative ever dream of such a machine? Last winter the Advocate suggested plank walks for the Yard, - an original, a grand idea, - but surely the same head did not invent this machine...
...time to begin the annual howl for plank walks in the Yard...
...appears that the ancestor of all bicycles and velocipedes dates from the year 1818; an invention of a Frenchman, a certain Baron du Brais. The Baron's machine was a very simple contrivance, consisting of two wooden wheels, one behind the other, connected by a curved plank, on which sat the driver, propelling himself by pushing with his feet on the ground. This machine, which was described as one "by which you can ride at your ease, and are obliged to walk in the mud at the same time," received the name of the "hobby horse." It was introduced into...
...season of our discontent. We are nearly through with those months of the year when there is nothing else to do but grumble. The bell that summons us to our semiannuals rings to-morrow for the last time. Henceforth we must look for something else to attack. Plank walks between Matthews and University, complaints about the Library, lamentations over the squeaking boots of proctors, have all afforded stanch material for dissatisfaction to the College papers. While we should be the first to welcome changes for the better in these and a thousand other abuses, we feel we have done...