Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very pleasant for you Boston men, but it has been a sober day for me. I did n't mind being turned out of my room, but it was rather hard to be kicked out of Memorial Hall by two infuriated college officers, after I had stolen up through the cellar with the hope of avoiding the rush at the door. Such treatment, ruffles the dignity of a Junior, you know. Of course I liked the exercises, but the Seniors did n't look sad enough, and seemed to take parting as a matter of course...
WHEN an umbrella with the owner's name on it is stolen from Memorial Hall, one is consoled by the thought that it may have been taken by some poco who strolled into the umbrella rack; but when a student has a hat with his card pasted in it taken from a nail near his seat, and never returned, the chances are that some student has it. Now these students must be making a rich harvest this year, for at our table alone three hats and four umbrellas have been lost, - I should say stolen. I presume that these students...
...Memorial Hall during the hours of meals. Some of the epithets used may seem to some a little too harsh, but it seems to us that this is no matter to mince words about. Where property which has the owner's name conspicuously marked on it is continually being stolen, as has been the case this year, there is good reason for indignation. We wish that there were any other reasonable supposition to adopt besides the one that these articles are stolen by students, but we cannot see that there is any escape from this conclusion. That students in Harvard...
...many coats have been stolen from the Law School that a boy has been placed in charge of the coat-room...
...under ordinary circumstances, will give no cause for such complaint. It is therefore recommended that students keep their boots clean, so that there will be no chance for dissatisfaction if they are not blacked; that nothing but milk and water be kept in rooms; and if anything is stolen, it will be because the students have been careless enough to have in their possession anything worth stealing...