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...would be a profitable expenditure for the Corporation to put in a few new planks in the stairs of Stoughton, Hollis and College House next summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...work on the tower of Memorial Hall is being done by Ware and Van Brunt, the architects. Windows are to be put in on the sides and a number of small turrets, one above the other, on each corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...They did n't bet and would n't bet under the most powerful stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around the individual. They represented a "putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...such an utter rout as our Nine experienced at the hands of Yale, last Saturday. The defeat was not due to any fault of the Nine, who have, since the commencement of the season, improved every opportunity for practice offered them, and who have labored early and late to put themselves in the best possible condition for the season's work; yet had not the rains of last week prevented the Nine from playing with the Lowells and the Manchesters, a better score in the Yale game would undoubtedly have been the result. The issue of Saturday's game will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...this bundle to Lyon here. But he is n't in, so I think I will wait here for him, if you don't mind; as I was saying, I happened to look round and saw your great shingle on the door, and thought to myself, 'Who can have put out such an immense card?' And when I read the name, I said, 'Can this be little Morris Benson whom I used to carry on my shoulders at the Dwight?' And so I knocked to see; and if it was n't that you were so little I should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOLS. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »