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...Glenn E. Plumb, originator of the Plumb plan for the administration of the railroads, will explain the details of his scheme to members of the University in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House, primarily for the graduate students of the University, but both graduate and undergraduates will be welcome...
...exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled, or Baked Meates or Pyres of any kind shall be made by any Commencer." They further...
...still yields books to thumb, plumb well your page...
...Elliott '12, 4 in.; T. O. Freeman '14, 2 in.; H. H. Heath '11, 2 in.; A. L. Jackson '14, 3 in.; R. P. Lewis '13, 5 in.; A. W. Moffat '13, 2 in.; N. Morris '14, 4 in.; C. O. Mueller '11, 2 in.; W. D. Plumb '13, 3 in.; S. A. Reed '11, 2 in.; F. B. Waller...
...Batchelder, C. G. Browne, F. R. Browne, C. W. Burrage, T. Cable, J. B. Cummings, R. S. deGozzaldi, Q. S. Greene, L. E. Hodges, C. F. Holbrook, G. N. Hurd, H. P. Lawless, B. B. Locke, F. S. Moulton, D. A. Park, G. N. Phillips, W. D. Plumb, W. Tufts, F. B. Waller, K. B. White, W. White, H. M. Warren...