Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...work on the tower of Memorial Hall is being done by Ware and Van Brunt, the architects. Windows are to be put in on the sides and a number of small turrets, one above the other, on each corner...
...instructed by the Executive Committee of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York, to inform the members of the different chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa residing in and near New York, that applications for membership may be sent to the Secretary at the office of Davies & Work, 120 Broadway. You are requested to communicate this information to all members of the Society whom you may meet. A list of the officers of the Association from whom further information may be obtained is annexed...
...classmate, who talks about the war in Turkey. What do I care about Turkey? The other day I thought I ought to take some interest in it; so I sought out a newspaper that had a huge map on one side of it, and went to work to find out all about it. I began by reading an account of the Russian advance; the first town I saw mentioned was Kars. Keeping to my intention of getting up the war thoroughly, I turned to the map to see where this heathen citadel was situated. After looking for a long time...
...some years influences tending to materially change the nature of Class Day have been at work. With the increase of numbers in the classes came the abolishment of the rush around the tree; then the tree exercises themselves were attacked severely by those who thought all such exhibitions boyish in the extreme; the office of chaplain was dropped or resumed at the pleasure of the particular class; and each year has made more evident the fact that Class Day is enjoyable, not because of its literary exercises, or because of its class-tree exercises, but because of the social enjoyment...
...annuals meets with better satisfaction this year than those publications are wont to receive. The class of men who are desirous that the order of examinations should be published early have no just ground for complaint; and the plan of putting the examinations in the Sophomore required work in the middle instead of at the end meets with decided favor. Many are relieved to find no afternoon examinations on the list, fear having been felt that this plan, which proved so objectionable in mid-years, would again be resorted to, in order to save time...