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Word: stall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remarks of Mr. Leverett Salton-stall at the last Harvard commencement on the growing extravagance of living at the college left a deep impression on those who listened to him. It would be a pity if nothing more should come of them than a general confession of their justness, and a vague appeal to wealthy parents to cut down their sons' allowances. If we depend much or mainly on an example of simple living on the part of those who have been bred in luxury, we shall be disappointed. Our practical efforts will lie in the direction of making economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economy at Harvard. | 10/1/1886 | See Source »

...adjourned meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday in the absence of the President of the board, the Hon. Leverett Salton-stall occupied the chair. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke was added to the committee to visit the observatory. The board concurred with the president and fellows in appointing William Henry Baldwin, Jr., as Proctor. Communications were received from the president and fellows conveying their votes to establish a Peabody Professorship of American Archaeology and Lithology in the university, and selecting Frederic Ward Putnam, A. M., as professor in said department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers' Meeting. | 10/31/1885 | See Source »

...make four or five large rooms. The Pope Manufacturing Co. had last summer several agencies around the country, where they kept bicycles and tricycles to let; they also taught riding. Now, perhaps they could be prevailed upon to take one of these rooms and fit it up, having stalls which they would let to students for bicycles, the rent of stall might include care of machine. They could use what extra space is left for a stock of their own which they could keep to tent. The other rooms could be used for above purposes. The billiard room would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/18/1884 | See Source »

...Harvard School of Veterinary Medicine, at the corner of Village and Lucas streets, Boston, will be constructed of brick with stone trimmings, fifty by sixty feet in area and three stories high, with a light and airy basement underneath. In the basement will be the forge room, the stalls and other accommodations for cattle, sheep, etc., and for the boiler and other steam heating apparatus and machinery to run the elevator. On the first floor of the building will be a large quadrangular space, surrounded by the stalls for horses. This is to be the lecture room, which will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VETERINARY HOSPITAL. | 4/28/1883 | See Source »

...showed a sense of the fitness of things in the Freshman to ask for a "box-stall" at the Globe the other night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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