Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ungrateful for me, after the yard authorities' kind compliance with the wishes of the college last year, to suggest that they extend their beneficence to the further laying of plank walks from the Chapel to the Library and from the front of University to Holworthy? Day before yesterday water had collected in the path to the Library to an average depth of not less than three nor more than six inches. As to the flagging in front of Thayer, we all know that it was submerged during every storm of last year, while there has been no visible improvement...
...next place, our management, wishing to bring about the game with Yale if it were possible to do so, telegraphed the following message to Captain Corbin early yesterday morning: "Would you be willing to play even in New Haven? Answer at once." Up to the time of going to press no reply had been received, which, in itself is an act of egregious discourtesy on Yale's part. It is too late now for the eleven to go to New Haven, therefore there will be no game this year...
...Varsity eleven played the freshman team a short practice game yesterday afternoon...
Umbrella-Taken by mistake from the chemical laboratory yesterday afternoon, an umbrella with a wooden handle and silver tip. Owner can have the same by calling at Matthews...
Professor Cohn of Harvard gave the first of a series of four readings from Moliere at Miss Hersey's school on Chestnut street yesterday afternoon. The play was "Le Medecin malgre lui," one of the most celebrated of French farces. In spite of the fact that the name Spanarelle is derived from the Italian, the play is French in every respect. The motive of a son trying to get money out of his father is embodied in "Le Medecin malgre lui," along with other elements of interest that become almost as conventional with Moliere as the plots of Latin comedy...