Word: roped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inmates of the building. The Record also has lately been agitating this question; and now we learn from the Yale News that, "In each entry of Durfee one of the upmost story rooms is to be provided on the Elm-street side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground. In each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear...
...Lampy. I caught on to the idea, and played the philosopher. I stared. Slowly but surely Lampy drooped. His legs elongated, his arms became wings, his nose became a beak. It was - it was the Ibis. Still he could talk. "Who did lemonade?" he squeaked. I took the only rope I had - my tennis net - and tied it to the bedpost. "Did you ever see tennis net?" he chuckled. I threw it out the window. "What was it kerosene?" I began to descend. The Ibis leaned far out the window and screeched, 'Will you subscribe?" - and I woke...
...efforts of the Committee to make Class Day enjoyable to those for whom it is intended are commendable. Instead of being roped off as usual, the Yard will be paled in. This will be a great improvement over the old plan. It seems impossible with the rope to keep out the rabble; and before the evening is over the crowd is so large that one cannot move about the Yard with any comfort. The aim of the Committee is to distribute the Yard-tickets among the class, and if all are careful as to whom they give them, next Class...