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...entirely forgotten. Mr. George S. Hale says he once found it here and used it at some private theatricals in Boston but was ignorant that it had been Lord Brougham's. Finally it seems to have been thrown into the cellar by some careless janitor with a pile of rubbish and when, some years ago, Holmes field was filled in and levelled, the rubbish from the old Law school cellar was taken out and emptied there, and it is thougt that the wig was buried with the rest. It seems to me much to be regretted that a souvenir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/3/1890 | See Source »

...been completed. The boat has been placed in its position in the center of the tank and the oars are being fitted in their positions. Over the ball cage half of the roof is of glass and the glaziers are at present fitting the last panes. Much of the rubbish which partly fills the cage will be removed within a day or two, and by the middle of next week the crew and the nine will commence training in their new quarters in the Carey building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Athletic Building. | 1/30/1890 | See Source »

...with satisfaction throughout the college. Permission to build a tank in Hemenway gymnasium has been refused, but there is no reason why one cannot be constructed in the old gymnasium on the delta opposite Memorial Hall. The building is now useless, except as a storehouse for all sorts of rubbish, and seems in every way fitted for the construction of a tank. How much such a tank will cost, it is impossible to say, but in a matter of such vital importance to the crew, subscriptions, both from graduates and undergraduates, should be generous. No effort ought to be spared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/8/1888 | See Source »

...Unversity. He fancies he has cleared himself by this lightly written phrase. In truth he has played the part of a mole. Without a glance at the fair structure which Harvard men have built in their prosperity, he has dug his way into a heap of the veriest rubbish and then blinded by the dust in his eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with all the energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1888 | See Source »

...torn down immediately. All the plastering in the room was shaken loose, and the wood work, paper and ornaments were badly scorched. Everything was in great disorder in the room when the CRIMSON reporter entered it; masons were engaged in tearing down plaster and cleaning away the rubbish caused by the explosion, curious men stood in groups and surveyed the wreck with great interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Ghastly Calamity. | 10/23/1885 | See Source »

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