Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good condition, so that no very good records have been made. A top dressing of loam and cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes Field was formerly a peat bog, which accounts for its extreme slowness in drying up in the spring. The Tennis Association has already begun laying out the new courts. The ground back of the Law School building has been...
...support all of them. Yet such is the indifference of many men that our papers are constantly getting into hot water because their subscription lists are so meager. We sincerely hope that the Lampoon will obtain not only the necessary 200, but many more subscriptions within the next fortnight...
...Williams Literary Monthly, will begin publication in April, when the Argo completes its present volume, Six editors will be employed on the new "Lit," who will be chosen each year from the senior class. The Athenaeum will continue as a bi-weekly under the name of the Williams Fortnight...
...twenty members of the Shooting Club who met at Watertown yesterday were favored with conditions which ought to have made it an easy task to run up clean scores on the tally sheets. For some reason, however, the shooting fell below the standard reached a fortnight ago, though the figures shown at the close of the afternoon's work were fairly creditable. The matches of yesterday were of importance, being the last competition but one in the current series; the result of the shooting serving to show approximately how the chances stand on the final award of prizes. Everything went...
...Hardly a fortnight ago we printed an editorial commenting upon the alarming prevalence of petty thieving in the college. As we predicted at that time, the matter was passed over and forgotten, apparently no effort whatever being made by the proper authorities to put a stop to the nuisance by detecting and punishing the offenders. We are led to refer to the subject again because of a recent and daring case of theft. Last week a student, upon going to dinner at Memorial, hung his overcoat upon one of the hooks at the side of the hall. Imagine his supreme...