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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone for Queen Victoria, when they were first engaged. My Lord, wishing the watch to be of unexceptionable excellence, had the case made in dear old Ireland [cheers from Irishmen], while the inside works were made...
...will look this way, I will show you some of its fine points. In the first place, by touching a hidden spring, the cover over the face flies back and discloses the hours all beautifully engraved on a white background. Here, again, you see the hands, three in number and of different sizes. In the three hands you must recognize an especial advantage, for even if two hands get broken you still have one left to show the time; also you cannot fail to see the wisdom of having hands of different sizes, for, to a near-sighted person...
Compels me to be off. First must...
THERE were nearly forty applicants for the Glee Club. Three first tenors, three second tenors, three first basses, and four second basses, have been taken on provisionally...
...officers for the torchlight procession are: Chief Marshal, E. D. Brandegee, '81; Senior-Class Marshals, - first, Atkinson; second, Folsom; third, Sanger. Junior Class Marshals are, - first, Pendleton; second, Bowen; third, Olmsted. Sophomore Class Marshals are, - first, Cabot; second, Morison; third...