Word: planking
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Again we begin to feel the need of plank walks...
...Plank walks have recently been placed the whole length of Everett street...
...tell you more. I can tell you why worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could have told you from actual observation the length of a Latin foot, and could have proved that the Romans wore pigtails, and had plank walks. During a lecture on the Italian classics, I proved to myself by the theory of curves that Napoleon was only Hannibal in disguise, and that the Graian Alps were so called because the Confederate States of America (whose uniform was gray) made their last stand here against the terrible Swedish...
...ventilation, and its commodious recitation rooms, supplies a long-felt want. The Zoological Museum also, has been largely added to, and its sphere of usefulness has been proportionately increased. The Yard and the buildings in it have all been more or less improved, and the long-continued demand for plank walks has been at last partially granted. The Faculty, in its attitude towards undergraduates, has given renewed evidence of its often-expressed policy of liberality. More freedom is allowed to the students in voluntary attendance at recitations, and even the Freshman class is granted some latitude in the choice...
...evening by a class of readers far more careless than students. Moreover, the electric light has been introduced with success in many public buildings. Could it be done here, the difficulty would be solved. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the same spirit which so unexpectedly gave us plank, brick, and flag walks, and the use of the Library on Sunday, will also soon open the Library in the evening...