Word: summers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will gain great popularity, and deserved popularity, in the present, can be safely affirmed. In spite of its length, it is a pleasant book to read, and some parts of it will bear more than one reading. We recommend it to all Harvard men as a companion in their summer travels...
DURING the summer extensive repairs are to be made on the College buildings. Special fees are to charged for the use of a room during vacation...
...Germany, and the newly formed organizations in the West, "La Commune" has been prospecting for a raid on the arms of the Rifle Corps. Through the vigilance of General Lister the attempt was detected in season to prevent the raid, and the arms have been removed for the summer to a place of safety. The Corps possesses two hundred stand of arms, breech-loading Peabody rifles, which are valued at five thousand dollars...
MANY complaints are heard, at this season, of the hour of dining at Memorial Hall, and it has been suggested that it should be postponed, in the spring and summer at least, till six o'clock, - a suggestion which is worth the attention of the directors. Many boarders are detained by baseball matches or rowing till after the hour, and to such the proposed change would be of great advantage, while apparently it would inconvenience none. The hour of all the club tables is six, and undoubtedly many prefer clubs to Memorial Hall largely on this account...
...hotel accommodations of New London are not large, some difficulty will probably be found in getting rooms, unless they are engaged some time beforehand. The Crocker House is the best hotel in town, and besides this there is the Pequot House, a summer hotel, about two miles down the river...