Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with meal, the Steward, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And farther, as Salt-Fish alone is, by the afores Law, appointed for the Dinner on Saturdays, and this Article is now risen to a very high Price, and through the great scarcity of Salt will probably be still higher, the Steward shall not be obliged to provide Salt-Fish, but shall procure Fresh-fish as often as he can. The above Regulations to be in force till further Orders, the afores 9th Law of Chap- 6 notwithstanding...
...Union College Magazine for March has at length appeared, some two months behind its proper time. An account of an editorial accident explains this long delay. The Magazine is decidedly the best specimen of the printer's art among our exchanges; its contents, however, are either painfully conventional or still more painfully local, - faults from which its long rest should have exempted...
...their attendance at divine service the stumps, which appear to have been thrown into an easy-chair, set their room on fire. An impromptu fire-brigade succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but the room was rendered almost uninhabitable. It is a lesson worth remembering. While cuspidors and ash-pans still exist, it is to be hoped that easy-chairs will not again be called upon to take their place...
Class of Assessed. Already subscribed. Still...
...said that he would not say much, for he was afraid that a habit which he had been obliged to form, in speaking for the crew, would get the better of him and he would be found dunning the company for subscriptions. He was sorry that there was still need for money, but he hoped that need would be soon supplied. The sentiment, "The University Nine, - may they beat Yale!" was received with enthusiasm. Mr. Hooper, in reply, said that at present the difficulty in the way was to get hold of Yale. When the time came, he was sure...