Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. -Will the gentleman who wore off by mistake a "Collins and Fairbanks" high stiff hat, somewhat too large for him, from the shelf at the upper end of Memorial on Monday, at dinner, please wear it to dinner tonight and exchange it for his own, thereby relieving the owner of the missing one from the unpleasant necessity of wearing a hat that is too small...
...Fairbanks" high stiff hat, somewhat too large for him, from the shelf at the upper end of Memorial on Monday, at dinner, please wear it to dinner tonight and exchange it for his own, thereby relieving the owner of the missing one from the unpleasant necessity of wearing a hat that is too small...
...trifling expense. It would be but little trouble to plant ivy near the buildings, and the result would be very pleasing. If the older buildings could be covered with a coat of living green, it would greatly increase the beauty of the yard by hiding the stiff and angular forms of the walls; and there is no reason why ivy should not grow as well upon the other buildings as it does on Harvard...
...style and gracefulness. If you are a very heavy, fleshy man, do not commence by loading yourself down with sweaters and trotting a long distance. Your muscles at this stage will not be hard enough to stand the strain, and if you try this you will be sore and stiff for at least a week. If you are as I say, corpulent, take Turkish baths and long walks for about a week or ten days, by which time you will be ready to begin work. When a person strips for the first time in the season, he naturally feels light...
Here and there one meets today a few men who are a little belated in their work, who are still grinding through some stiff or special examination, and who are in cap and gown, and these lend a most pleasing variety to the general quaintness-almost weirdness-of the place and day. For really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long...