Word: putting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...amount of $1,347.50, as shown by the Treasurer's list; thus showing a balance of assets over all present liabilities of $963.05, which amount properly should stand to-day as cash in the Treasurer's hands. The probable expense for the coming race with Yale may be put down as $1,500, which should cover all the cost of boats, training, &c., for the crew themselves show a determination to the strictest economy. To meet this outlay of some $600 we have the promise of theatricals and some little help from graduates. It remains now largely with the gentlemen...
...wooden pinnacles now being put up in the tower of Memorial Hall are simply temporary, and if their appearance proves acceptable, they will be replaced by copper-plated ones...
...Hall is the place where the students eat. I enjoyed seeing this exquisite structure very much, but being, as you know, nearsighted, failed to grasp its full beauties. A pleasant young man showed me over the Hall. The Bills of Fare on notable occasions are engraved on slabs and put up on the walls; I tried to read these, but my eyes were not strong enough...
...less ridiculous than bygone times, although it may outrun them in a thousand other absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar...
...seen, with possibly the exception of the last piece, all these selections were severely classic, such as Thomas might have put on his own programme. But to do such music perfect justice requires more time, labor, and exclusiveness of devotion on the part of the orchestra than men in college can well afford to spend. Wouldn't it be better then for amateurs to have less of the classic and a little more of a lighter school...