Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LARGE and enthusiastic meeting was held last Friday for the purpose of forming a Chess Club. The following officers were elected: President, W. S. Andrews, '80; Vice-President, H. I. Thomsen, '81; Secretary, J. A. C. Wright, '81; Treasurer, H. M. Hubbard, '82. The club intend to procure and furnish a room. A meeting to adopt constitution and transact other business will be held Thursday. The managing committee of the American Chess Congress have written, urging that the club be represented at the National Congress to be held in New York this winter. It is hoped the club will...
Sport I have heard this pastime called. Well, yes, it did furnish a good deal of sport to my host's pretty daughter. I now think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch...
...departure of '79 will be felt in no way more seriously than in our athletics. A class which can furnish not only the backbone of the 'Varsity, but the best class-crew besides; which has seven members on the foot-ball team; and whose representatives on the Nine are the last that can be said to have profited by the good training of former years, - not to mention the champion single-sculler and several prominent athletes, - this class cannot depart without leaving a large vacancy behind it. Now, however, while the College is still fresh with the memory of these...
...meet the expenses at New London. The College has been thoroughly canvassed: further attempts to raise money by subscription would be in vain. The object of the concert to be given next Friday evening, May 23, in Sanders Theatre, by the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality, is to furnish the money necessary for meeting these expenses. The programme - both songs and orchestral numbers - will be new; Memorial Hall is to be cleared for dancing after the concert. In this way an opportunity is afforded of uniting an evening's enjoyment with a much needed contribution for the Crew. Tickets...
...similar to the one just described, except that its doorway and pediment slightly differ in shape. The south end of the building will front Main Street, and will be quite plain in general appearance. A tier of triple windows will extend up the centre, three to a floor, furnishing light to the entries within. These windows will have carved brickwork underneath, and the middle one in each triplet will be double the length of the other two, and will extend down to the floor, the lower half being flanked by carved brickwork. This extension is to furnish a ready means...