Word: reel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Horticultural Hall itself is occupied throughout this week by a charitable fair, the returns were given out in the smaller hall above the main one. Every seat was filled. A large reel of paper was used in announcing the returns and unfortunately the black chalk employed made such slight marks that the figures could hardly be seen by the men at the back of the hall...
...Legend of Hollis Hall," by Percy Wallace MacKaye '97, is a rhyme of some fifteen pages after the manner of "T' was the Night Before Christmas." The tale is a fanciful bit of work. It is the story of a freshman of the class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle." The rhyme suggests...