Word: return
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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MEPH. I ask thee to use, in return for this favor...
...invented in a certain apartment in University Hall. A Junior, summoned to account for absences from recitations, showed a doctor's certificate in proof of his illness. This will not do, he was told; the College is not a hospital. If ill, the student had better go home, and return when well...
...rooms: the light from outside will be sufficient. Does the Bursar consider that in this way our enormous gas bills will be done away with, and this burden placed on his shoulders? It cannot be. How pleasant, after enjoying life in Boston under the cover of darkness, to return to Cambridge and find the Yard as light as day, which will obviate our difficulty in finding the walks and the key-holes of our doors. Another great gain will be in changing the hour of recitations, for they can be held as well at midnight...
...make light of putting out the glass lights when the gas lights have been put out; but, on the other hand, have shown a great love for "Lampy," whose bright light is far more brilliant even than Edison's Electric Light. Therefore let us earnestly seek for the return of "Lampy" and then the lamps on the College buildings will only serve as ornaments, and targets for the Rifle Club...
...deceived thee, and by just return...