Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Saturday was as unfavorable a day for good records as could well have happened; but, in spite of the biting wind and clouds of dust, there was a good-sized audience on Jarvis Field, and the sports were fairly interesting...
...capacity for business can see, by looking over the list of vacant rooms in college buildings, that this is not done now. The College loses over $7,000 this year by being unable to let rooms, $4,000 of this loss being in Thayer alone. Would it not be well for a college which pretends to be as poor as Harvard does to consider whether it would not make more money by letting rooms for a price which it can get than by keeping them vacant at a price which it cannot get? With the best interests of the College...
...essentially, a city club, with such modifications as life at the University calls for; its active membership is consequently very large, - twelve hundred or more, - about one-half of the undergraduates; it is a club for the whole University, open to men who have just matriculated as well as to those who have been up for several years, and to former members who happen to be in Oxford; while strangers may be "put down" for a month by any undergraduate or graduate member...
...club-house is a comfortable, well-built brick building, situated in as central a position as possible with regard to the various colleges. In the main hall are bulletin-boards for various notices and announcements, one for the latest telegrams, a letter-rack for letters addressed to the club, and such conveniences. Opening out of this are the superintendent's office, the reading-room, where all the newspapers and magazines may be found, another reading-room, and the writing-room. Here are to be found all sorts of directories, post-office guides, c letters for abroad placed in the boxes...
GLOBE THEATRE. - The well-known spectacular drama, "The Black Crook," has been played at this theatre during the week, and is likely to continue for some time, to judge from the size of the audiences. The scenery is as fine, perhaps, as any ever shown in Boston; and the corps de ballet is large, though not thoroughly well trained...