Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston have high esteem of Harvard, and if one chances to have married a Yale man, after he has been to one of these dinners, he quietly airs his clothes, says little about it, and passes it over as smoothly as possible. They think Yale is a little rough and the only perfect man is a Harvard graduate...
...luxuries of club life are rapidly extending to the Western universities. The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at the University of Michigan are about to erect a new chapter house. The building will be constructed of rough cut stone, of the early English style of architecture. It will be built in a spacious and thoroughly convenient style, and will present a highly artistic appearance. In height it will be three stories besides the basement, the latter having a dining-hall, kitchen, storerooms and boiler room. The first floor is to have a central hallway, parlor, smoking-room, library and matron...
...next day Travers took us half a mile out of the town, to the Company's mine, on a bare hill-side dotted with groups of men working around their shafts. Two of the "Company" were at work down below, and two were turning the cranks of the rough wooden windlass. They were shaggy, powerful, good-natured fellows, who shook me warmly by the hand when they learned that I was an old friend of their "pard's," and treated Elsie as if she were a goddess just stepped down from the clouds...
...elbow into my ribs which recalled to me that Colney was in the drift above, and that this might be a precaution. So I made no further opposition, and we were soon swinging in mid air, with the growing spot of sky above, the black abyss below and the rough, damp walls around, just out of our reach...
When I came to myself, we were lying on the ground by the shaft, and the rough fellows were bending tenderly over us, fanning our faces, and rubbing our poor knotted, cramped arms...