Word: shops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There seems to be a tendency among the proprietors of various tobacco shops of the city and vicinity to display in their windows photographs of our champion athletic organizations. This in itself, seems decidedly out of place, but when these pictures and the cheap frames around them are stamped with certain brands of cigars, and are thus made into advertisements, it seems as though the practice ought to be stopped. The student who feels a just pride in the success of the athletic associations cannot value the various photographs of such associations as highly as he ought...
There is a popular idea that the utility and magnification of a microscope depend somehow on its size and formidable appearance. How false this conception is can be learned any day by a visit to the work-shop of a practical microscopist. His resplendent "double barrel" binocular is kept carefully under cover, at ordinary times, and only brought out for exhibition, while the real work is done with a smaller and apparently inferior instrument...
...kerosene, and, when the watchman returned to the basement of University to fill his buckets, locked him in. Masters of the field, they now began to feed the fire with barrels, stuffed with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails, and in fact anything they could lay their hands on. The fool-hardiness of some who poured on kerosene from tin cans, which the flames almost seemed to envelop was extraordinary; it is only a wonder that the bon-fire had not served as a funeral pile...
...fire in a carpenter shop on Boylston street-late Brighton-last evening, at about 10.30, drew out a large and enthusiastic audience of students...
...makes them miserably uncomfortable. He is always playing tricks upon the unwary, in which he is usually discomfited. A typical example of the Devil in the literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan. He was constantly visitting the saint's blacksmith shop to make sinful suggestions and disturb the holy man's pious meditations. But one day, as the Devil poked his head in at the window, the doughty saint caught his diabolical nose in red hot pincers, and the Devil fled howling, to trouble the saint no more...