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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signed the venerable old president's name to it. Of course that sort of spoiled the next day's celebration. It took two or three coats of white paint to get off the green. After the pole was up, we went out one morning and found a washbasin on top of it. How any one could have got it there nobody knew. All the men in Cambridge went out and fired at it with their revolvers, but it was three or four hours before any one hit it. Then again they put a large tin cap on the top...
OFFICE FURNITURE. Of Roll-Top Desks, Chairs and Tables there is now an immense assortment at PAINE'S manufactory on Canal street...
...were carried up the aisle and placed in front of the pulpit. They were followed by President Eliot with Professor Ko's eldest son, - who was dressed in a white Chinese suit, - a mandarin, Rev. Dr. Holland, and a few friends. The remains were enclosed in a casket, on top of which were placed his mandarin hat and a necklace of beads of a peculiar kind, which was the insignia of his rank in China. The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract...
OFFICE FURNITURE. Of roll-top desks, chairs and tables, there is now an immense assortment at PAINE'S manufactory on Canal st., Boston...
AUBURNDALE, Feb. 1, 1882. February has appeared in wintry splendor, and from our seat on the hill-top we look out upon our pretty village, up to its knees in snow, in real old-fashioned New England style, and beautiful to behold are the dazzling levels and fantastic drifts under the deep blue sky. But in the busy round of work we have scarcely time to watch nature's doings, and only when she flings a glorious day like this in our very faces do we stop to wonder and admire. Just now we have on the tapis a course...