Word: giving
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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YEOMAN. Then I would n't give two cents to hear...
...large central room at the Museum, intended for the reception of mounted specimens, will soon be finished. This will give to that portion of the Museum open to visitors a much more attractive appearance. Two other rooms for the same purpose are to be added as soon as possible...
...gotten by continued and undisturbed study, and what can never be obtained by satisfying a restless curiosity, which would skim over twenty prints in a time scarcely sufficient to get what there is in one. These prints will remain on exhibition for ten days longer, when they will give place to others. In general, I learn that a change will be made every month...
...most of us are in the dark. Our exchanges furnish us with an occasional ray of light on the subject, but these are not seen by the college reading world until a long time after the news has grown literally old. The proposed system of correspondence, if perfected, will give us full and reliable accounts of anything of interest in our sister colleges. Now, of all times, do we need this, for never before have there been so many intercollegiate contests. Last year, when twelve colleges announced their intention of sending crews to Springfield, the college papers were eagerly scanned...
...Wind (blowing a gale), N. S. by W. E. Off Blackwell's Island. Cheered by resident Cubans. Run fifteen bells in four hours, and at five knots pipe to dinner. Speak a ferryboat from Holmes Hole, short of provisions; give them a barrel of salt for ballast, and two able-bodied seamen (already blind-drunk and mutinous). Toward dusk a shot across our bows from villanous-looking pilot-boat. Press on under full head of canvas and steam, - she is overhauling us, - O for night! (Sable Goddess, - Young.) At ii P. M. near enough for conversation, too near for comfort...