Search Details

Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Although the price of the board at Memorial has been cut down the quality of the food still remains the same, in spite of the predictions of many who did not favor the plans of the directors. We are glad to see that complaints have not been frequent during the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/28/1882 | See Source »

"Oxoniensis" writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "A fire is everywhere dangerous enough; but in the colleges of our older universities it has risks of its own. Twice within the last few months has a set of rooms at Oxford been burned. In the fire at Baliol College the occupant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCERNING FIRES IN ENGLISH COLLEGES. | 3/24/1882 | See Source »

Besides in England the student only takes his dinner in the hall, and if he gives notice in the morning that he shall not dine there is in some colleges never charged for his dinner, and in others only twice a week. His breakfast, luncheon and supper, if he choose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES. | 3/22/1882 | See Source »

Questions propounded by an E. C. [esteemed contemporary] for solution by the class in Freshman Physics : What velocity must a locomotive have to pick up a deaf man walking on the track and fling him so high that six cars pass before he comes down? A mother standing at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 3/21/1882 | See Source »

Resolved, That the committee of fifty recommend to the board of directors that the steward be directed to cut down the price of board to $4.25 per week, by means of reducing the variety, and that the articles of food removed from the regular bill of fare be put on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/18/1882 | See Source »