Word: woode
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Received for coal and wood...
...society for the rest of this year, and that is a voluntary assessment footing up to about $600. With that sum, and the sale of the greater part of the stock, it will be possible to run the society through the year on a smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred men in college who realize that the benefits of the society would be worth $2 to them, and if these...
...much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from his bed and given the pump bath. He was caused to mount...
Girard College, Philadelphia, has just opened a school of technology. It will not attempt to teach in full any one trade, but to give instruction in the skillful use of tools in wood and iron. This is in some respects a new experiment...
...Portman about rent, he migrated to a ground called the new or middle ground, near North Bank, Regent's Park. Three years later the Regent's Canal was cut through the ground, and Lord removed to the ground now owned by the Marylebone Club in St, John's Wood road. The original turf used in Dorset square was taken up, so says Mr. Lilly white, with each removal, and consequently when the Marylebone Club played on June 22, 1814, their first important match, defeating Hertfords hire in one inning, they played on the same turf as that which years before...