Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...examination for the state scholarship at Cornell will be held on June 7. Candidates must be at least 16 years old and of six months standing in the common schools or academies of the state during the present year. The examination will cover English grammar, geography, physiology, arithmetic, plain geometry and algebra through quadratic equations...
...Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs give a concert next Friday evening in Jamaica Plain...
...Scandinavian stories to us is the one in which a great flood covers the earth and eagles hunt for fish on the tops of tall mountains. Finally the waters ran off the green lands in torrents and left a regenerated world. In fact, the influence of Christianity is plain in many other of the latter beliefs and legends of the ninth and tenth centuries when the end of the world was momentarily expected...
...ABBOT.HARVARD GLEE CLUB.- Rehearsals this week: Monday and Thursday at 7; Tuesday and Wednesday at 1.30. Last rehearsal before Jamaica Plain concert. All men must attend...
...seems pertinent, however, to inquire into the causes of the "dissatisfaction" at the cups. The honor of winning an event ought to be the chief motive for inducing men to enter. The value of the prize lies in what it represents, not in its cost. The cups, even plain three quarter pint cups, represent victory as much as silver medals would. As at present awarded, they have definite meanings, and have become almost an institution. If medals were substituted would not men get tired of them also in a year or two? It must be remembered that at one time...