Word: silver
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEDAL is to be substituted for the beer mug as the Glee Club Shingle. The medal of the active members will be of silver, that of associate members of bronze...
...newspapers say, let us now enter. "The interior is sumptuous in its richness. The arched ceiling is frescoed in bright and happy coloring. Silver-plated hooks for clothing are along the sides, and nine improved lamps hang from the ceiling, while as many nickel-plated, portable lamps are distributed - throughout the car. If necessity requires, movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons...
...architect of Sever Hall might well get some hints for fitting up the professors' retiring-rooms from the arrangements of this car. A silver-plated hook for the professor to hang his hat on would be the first requisite. A nickel-plated lamp would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath...
Gold medals will be given for first, and silver for second and third prizes...
...Aldrich as judges for Livingstone. Thanks are due to the officers of the Quinsigamond Boat Club for the hospitality extended to all Harvard men who were present, and for the orderly and judicious management of the race. At the Quinsigamond boat-house Goddard was presented with an elegant silver cup, which he accepted, saying that he had been working for it for the last week, and not, as was reported, that he had been expecting...