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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hardware, paint, lumber, etc., at boat-house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/2/1882 | See Source »

...Dartmouth trustees at a meeting last evening, after much debate voted to paint all the college buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

...students at Bowdoin are becoming frivolous and frolicsome. We learn from the Orient that last Friday morning it was discovered that the seats in several recitation rooms had been decorated with a fresh coat of black paint. Quite a number of the classes were adjourned, on account of the artistic efforts of a few unsalted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/28/1882 | See Source »

...going to have a big time here putting up the flag-pole. They were going to put up the pole on the morning of the Fourth of July, and left it lying on the ground the night of the third. A party of students went there that night, and painted the whole length of it with green paint. They put an inscription on it that wasn't very complimentary to the city of Cambridge, and signed the venerable old president's name to it. Of course that sort of spoiled the next day's celebration. It took two or three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALK WITH A CAMBRIDGE POLICEMAN. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

...believe it's called, walking the street. At first I thought it was a Chinaman, or belonged to the Humpty Dumpty Troupe, but my cousin said that he was connected with the Tuft's Soda Fountain Manufacturing Company. At present I am very much occupied, for I am taking painting and drawing lessons, have a dancing master, take piano and singing lessons, go to riding and swimming schools, have a lady teacher for French and German, and a love of a gentleman teacher in Italian and Spanish, and learning to play the banjo; of course I don't paint much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

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