Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...their circle of operations. They have sent to each member of the senior class a circular asking for contributions of furniture, books, and pictures. Moreover, they have bought twenty complete sets of furniture at an expense of one thousand dollars, or fifty dollars a set. These sets are necessarily plain, but as substantial and serviceable as anybody could desire. Each set will be loaned for a year on deposit of $7.50, of which $2.50 will be given back at the end of the college year, provided that the furniture is returned in good condition, or that the lease is renewed...
Robert Gould Shaw was simple, manly, steadfast, affectionate and humane to the last degree; his ambition was to do his plain duty...
...columns for a number of months. "The Decadence of Mr. Arthur Helmer," though it can appeal to none but a Harvard man, is a vivid and accurate character study far more thorough than one generally finds in college writing. It is photographic in its accuracy, and the style, though plain, is incisive at every stage...
...resolutions adopted by the students were empty words or would go for that; the only way for the students to make it perfectly plain that the outrages of Saturday were never to be repeated was to go to work vigorously to ferret out the offenders. Morever the action taken by the students Monday night was approved by the public press and apparently by the people at large. To fail to carry out the intentions of the previous meeting was tantamount to backing down from our position...
...Friday morning considers the crew management responsible for the lack of success of the Glee Club concert on Tuesday. The truth of the matter is that the Glee Club have treated the crew very shabbily in not giving the concert before, when more people were in town. The Jamaica Plain and Cambridge concerts, too, drew away from the audience on Tuesday. As to the concert not begin advertised, I happen to know that circulars were sent to all the houses on the Back Bay and notices published in all the daily papers, etc. The night was rainy and disagreeable; most...