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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mere piece of mechanism. I threw it into the bed, between the blankets. Clang! swurr! The perspiration stood on my brow; a reckless desperation seized upon me. I hurled it into the closet, and tumbled all my clothes - dress suit and all - down upon it. Spiz! wrurr! like ten thousand furies. Was there no way to stop the cursed thing? I could hear Boxer stirring. There was a movement downstairs. Clang! whirr! clang! I rushed frantically to the window, tore up the sash, and hurled the infernal machine out into the air. Clang! jang! whirr! it mocked...
...music of the Greek play is written for twenty-five instruments, and will cost, including printing and the training of the orchestra, about fifteen hundred dollars. The total cost of bringing out the play will be not far from three thousand dollars. It is not impossible that one or two representations will be given in New York...
...hundred thousand dollars for the new Law School building was given to the College under the following circumstances: President Eliot, while walking along the street in Boston, met an old gentleman well known for his liberality towards the College. As they passed each other, the old gentleman asked, seemingly in jest, "Well, what do you want now? The President replied in the same tone, "A new Law School." A few days after the President received an invitation to lunch. After taking lunch alone with his host, they sat talking about general college matters until the subject of the Law School...
...entered upon the records of the corporation, on the 29th of November, 1880, `for the purpose of exemplifying what the present corporation, after careful consultation with the present professors and assistant professors, regard as a suitable system' of retiring allowances. In July, 1879, Mr. George Baty Blake sent one thousand dollars to the president and fellows, as a contribution towards a pension fund; and, in the spring of 1880, a distinguished graduate of the college informed the president that he intended to give ten thousand dollars for that general purpose whenever the corporation, after consultation with the professors, should have...
...five thousand a year...