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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfect or patent pen gauge inkstand is what every one needs. The ink is stored in a rubber pouch enclosed in a neat glass frame or stand. The construction is such that turning a thumb screw on the top of the inkstand forces up a steel saucer kept beneath the rubber ink pouch, bringing into sight in a glass cube or dipping cup just the amount of ink needed...
...Leavitt and Peirce's window. The cup is an elegant piece of workmanship. It is of solid silver, lined with gold, weighs about eighty ounces, and will hold about two quarts. It is made in the shape of a half football. The engraving is especially noteworthy. Around the top of the cup is a wreath of laurel leaves twined together in an artistic manner. Beneath this is a plain band, on which are the words in large raised letters, "Boston School FootBall Challenge Cup." The central wreath is made of morning glories: twenty-four leaves, and a number of well...
Students who wish to see the Harvard-Technology race this afternoon can take the horse car to Watertown, then walk across the bridge and up the hill. The start and finish will be about four hundred yards from the top of the hill. The race will be started at 2.30 and will finish soon after three o'clock. Harvard will be represented by the following men, who will meet at the gymnasium at two o'clock: Barron, Brown, Rogers, Wirts, Holmes and Greenleaf...
...which is offered by six Harvard men is of solid silver and very heavy. It is between eight and nine inches high and about the same in diameter. The body of the cup resembles in shape half a Rugby foot-ball. About the top of the cup is a band of olive leaves in raised silver, and below this is another band on which is placed the name of the cup. Upon the wide space below, which runs round the body of the cup, are morning glories and leaves raised in silver, the leaves being left blank for the inscriptions...
...recent catalogue of the university, and several pamphlets containing information about Yale will be enclosed a in tin box and placed in a cavity cut in the top of the stone. East Divinity Hall is the only other building on the campus which has any similar material in its corner-stone. This stone contains documents relating to the illogical Seminary...