Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flag pole on the Insurance building, directly over the weather signal. "There it hung," says the account of the affair, "limp and soaked by the rain, while on the sidewalk opposite gathered crowds of students alternately watching the flag and 'giving each other game.' At length, on the roof of the cupola, appeared a number of '85 men, whose appearance was the signal for a chorus of hearty cheers from their class-mates. The supporters of '86 returned a feeble cheer, but their hearts sank as they saw an adventurous sophomore divest himself of his shoes and begin to climb...
That night Colney was lynched; and Elsie and I, seated on the roof of a prairie-wagon, were borne in triumphal procession through the town...
...policy to have the story get abroad that Harvard College is economical of everything but the lives of its students: we don't. But let us put the matter on a strictly financial basis. Suppose Weld takes fire and burns to the ground. Unless the fire began on the roof, the admirably constructed chimneys in the centre of the building (whose draught might profitably be imitated by other chimneys in the College Yard) would cut off the inhabitants from all escape, and a loss of forty or fifty lives would be the certain result. Now let us take the smaller...
...does the College lay a brick walk in front of Holworthy, and then arrange the spouts from the roof of the building so that they discharge directly upon the walk, giving us an inch or two of water in summer and an icy sheet in winter...
...well-clad and suave Harvard student now dines in a splendid cathedral room sixty feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon...