Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...order that our demands for the supply of a much-needed want may be shown to be reasonable, we venture, though fearfully, to write "Plank-walks" again. Hoping to touch the heart of at least one member of the Corporation, we have procured a rough estimate of the cost of a plank-walk, to be laid around the Yard, and on the principal cross-walks and entrances; such a walk, made three feet wide, of strong planks, and so constructed that it could be taken up and put down again with little labor, would cost only about...
...Yale Record of this week is a good number. Among other things it discusses the place of the next Regatta, approves of New London, and thinks that extortion would be the chief feature of a Regatta at Saratoga. It loses its temper in an attempt to "rough" the Magenta for venturing to say that in its last number it indulged "a wee bit in braggadocio," and makes one remark which may have been funny when it first appeared in Yale papers, though we have forgotten, and another which we do not repeat, because we are unwilling to believe that more...
...course Winthrop Point projects well out from the west bank, and so protects the river from below. Moreover, as there is a tide of two feet, there will always be one time of day when the wind and current being together it cannot be very rough, so that the crews will not be deprived of practice for days and days together, as they were at Springfield...