Word: founding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...youth I wrote a metrical version of Todhunter's Algebra, that was much admired, and in college I have written a series of Essays on various subjects. They are bound in blue, and are to be found at the Secretary's office. I organized the Philomusagothespian Society; but, owing to lack of support from the College, the Society was obliged to disband. At first I boarded with my cousin Mr. Connors; but, for the last year, I have taken a suite of rooms in College House. My best friend was the President of the Porcelain Club. I did not know...
...took arsenic because his choicest stanza had been left out; the Bummer looked in vain for his complaint about the janitors, and declared that the Editor was fawning on the Faculty; the Professor was disgusted with the complaints, and publicly reviled the paper at all his recitations; the Wit found that all the point of his article had been left out, and that his brevity jokes had been spoiled by the printer. However, there was point enough left in them to get the Editor cowhided by a janitor and suspended for speaking disrespectfully of the President. Truly, a weary wight...
...ground-floor during the night, great loss of property, and perhaps of life, would have been inevitable. The ladders, which figured so prominently in the Bursar's letter to the Advertiser last year, and which he stated could be put in use in less than five minutes, were found to be so carefully strapped down that it was more than ten minutes before they could be placed in position. The Cambridge Fire Department was as inefficient as can well be imagined. Late to arrive, they went to work without any controlling head, and their hose was so poor that...
...been on the Hare and Hounds. We've had a beastly run!" This was the explanation that my chum made when I returned from dinner and found him in the midst of dirt and confusion...
...University to the alumni; while more detailed accounts are furnished by the bulletins of the several departments, - those of the Library, Observatory, and Bussey Institute. News of unusual interest is published both in the daily and college papers. Whatever else there is of interest to alumni can be found in the yearly necrology and the reports of the class-secretaries. So the "wide gap" which the Register is coming to fill is already occupied. We must, therefore, look for another motive for its appearance...