Word: place
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Class Races will take place next Saturday; at 10 A. M., on Jarvis Field." - Transcript...
...interfere with these gentlemen. The spectacle of the President and Fellows threatening to arrest as trespassers men who are doing their work in an orderly and a quiet manner is an edifying one, the more so when we consider the character of some of the men who have been placed in the responsible position of janitor. We suppose that the Corporation will proceed to execute the threat which has been made in their name; they have the law on their side, we are informed, and that will supply the place of justice. We are sorry to see that the Advocate...
...their friends believe that they have somehow deteriorated in their work, and lost their position. In former years the list has had the names in the order of rank for the first three years, - the obviously natural and proper method. Such a list should at once be posted, in place of the present one, to put a stop to the elation of some parents at their sons' supposed rise, - whose disappointment would be most bitter if they were not undeceived till Commencement, - and the regret of others at their sons' apparent falling off. There is no need of pointing...
...place again to call the attention of the College to the exorbitant price asked for many of the rooms, - a price which not only exceeds that asked by other colleges, but which seems to follow no fixed rules. For instance, one hundred and seventy-five dollars is asked for a room on the ground-floor of Thayer, and also for one on the fourth floor. Considering the best of the rooms are cold, comfortless and undesirable, such a price is simply out of all proportion. As a result, there are now vacant nineteen rooms in this one building...
...unauthorized use of the names of Messrs. Wendell and Simmons by the managers of the Park Garden, in announcing certain athletic games to take place there, was an outrage for which it is hard to find proper terms. The announcement was so absurd upon the face of it that no one who knew either of the gentlemen believed it; but the action of the managers of the Park Garden is none the less a mean and contemptible one. We wish that some legal redress could be obtained in a case like this...