Word: remains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mutton-chops, fried potatoes, two cups of tea, two glasses of milk, some cold meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard. Skiapous lost fourteen pounds on that trip...
...between Thayer and Weld Halls. Before the day had closed, the telegraphers had an opportunity of proving their success by sending the news of the "Great Fire" in Boston across the line. Thus the birthday of the Telegraph at Harvard was celebrated by an event that will long remain a part of the history of Boston. May we not suppose that, as the burning of the "Temple of Diana," at Ephesus, celebrated the birthday of so invincible a conqueror as Alexander of Macedon, so the Boston conflagration was the herald of great glory to so rapid a communicator...
...transmittendum. On the panels of the closet doors some fine paintings were executed by a member of the class of '54. These doors were about to be removed, and the occupant roundly fined, when the President of the College fortunately happened in and ordered the carpenters to let them remain; they have not yet been taken away, and probably will not so long as the room is used for its present purpose...
...office, dressing-rooms, etc., on the second floor. This change would almost double the space for apparatus on the ground floor, and ventilators and bath-rooms could be easily arranged. The Government must too well appreciate the importance of a first-class Gymnasium to allow it long to remain in its present cramped and uninviting condition...
...time of the regatta. It is thought that such a course would tend to increase the interest in the matches, and the expenses would not be greater than those attending the first plan, while the receipts would be much larger. In this case the Nine would have to remain in Cambridge for two or three weeks after the close of College, when a fine opportunity for practice would be obtained...