Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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37Students will save money by having their furniture repaired and upholstered at my store during this and next week. Wishing to keep my workmen busy I make special figures which are a great reduction from regular prices. Call and see me personally. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston St., Read's Block...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I would like through your columns to call the attention of the superintendent of buildings to a small matter, but a very harassing one to men in the vicinity who are worn out by their grinding for the examinations. I refer to the workmen picking away at the brick work of Holden Chapel. The west fronts of Stoughton and Hollis are exposed to this continuous sound, beside which lawn mowers and mucker choruses are music. Cannot this work be postponed a few weeks, until men have left college? The building would be none the worse...
...correspondent of to-day speaks of the noise that is necessarily made by the workmen who are repairing Holden Chapel. It seems as though a more suitable time of year could be found for such work than during the busy days of the final examination, when every man is, or tries to be, hard at work. Whether the work, and consequently, the noise that accompanies it, is unavoidable, is not for us to say. If it can be left to some later day, it would certainly be a relief to the students who have rooms in that neighborhood...
...direction which, we venture to assert, no one has ever suspected. It is the custom of the college to encourage interior decoration by paying the cost of the paper-hanging whenever a student re-papers his room. With this custom in mind a student recently engaged workmen to refit his room. After the work of re-papering was completed, he called upon the proper officer of the college to receive the customary allowance. This functionary expressed a wish to view the improvements, and was conducted to the room in question, which he closely inspected, and then, with an ominous shake...
...workmen, while engaged on Saturday in excavating the cellar for Mr. Hilton's new block on Harvard street, discovered an iron pot containing several quarts of Spanish gold coins, the value of which has not yet been ascertained...