Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late, and we are forced to believe that the authorities have rather neglected the casus belli, - case of our own bell. If we may be pardoned for interference in a matter which, strictly speaking, is none of our business, we would suggest that a proctor be delegated to sit up nights with the bell, and see that it does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start a subscription paper for providing the ancient annunciator on Harvard Hall with hot "Toms and Jerrys," and other comforting liquids, during the continuance of the present cold...
...MITCHELL. Capt.TO SENIORS. For this week the hour 12 and 1 every day is reserved. During that time seniors may sit without previous appointment. Pach Bros'. interior photographer will be here about the middle of March to take the rooms of those who wish it. The price is $3.00 for the first and $2.00 for each duplicate. Appointments can now be made at the studio...
...forms" consist of a plank, placed horizontally, with the hard side up, to sit upon, with another plank higher up to serve as a writing desk. Upon a victim attempting to assume an upright position, this latter plank comes into play upon the small of the back, after the manner of one of the ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities...
...returns from the senators are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduates who may be harboring an ambition to sit at the round board. The public schools may claim as their own 14 of the senators, while 13 received the finishing touches in academies. Harvard University, including the Law School, graduated 4; Amherst 2; Tufts: Williams, 1; and other colleges 2. Senator Howard was self educated. Hon. William Trowbridge Forbes of Westboro was once an instructor in Mathematics in Robert College, Constantinople. Of the representatives, 165 got all their schooling in the public schools, 39 are from academies and 36 from...
...Passaic, N. J. man is credited with the invention of a unicycle from which great results are expected. There is a screw loose in the instrument or else in the description, for it is described as a "spokeless wheel, inside of which two persons can sit" while propelling it through the medium of "intricate, but easy working machinery." The lucid description further states that there are two wheels, one inside the other, but as the outer wheel only rests on the ground the machine is called a unicycle. - T. F. and Farm...