Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enthusiasm of the spectators dispelled all fears that the college had no interest in the crew. Well, the crew has gone, and there will be a brief week of anxious waiting. Let us hope we shall have two more victories to record, and two more pennants to adorn the walls of the trophy room. The victories must and will come; but if they do not, it will be because the better crew is Yale's or Columbia's; not because Harvard's crew has proved unworthy of herself and the college...
Over half the men in college live here for four years without attempting to adorn their rooms in the slightest. The walls are bare, the floor, or carpet, worn and often times very dirty, the furniture of a most unattractive nature, and no taste whatever displayed in the choice of window hangings. Now it may be said that it is not for all of us to be apostles of "sweetness and light," or even to be true disciples of Oscar Wilde; but it is possible for every man with a little care to keep his room clean and tidy...
...generosity of Hon. Henry J. Furber, '59, of Chicago, one of the vacant panels upon the south side of the chapel will soon be filled. The painting will be upon canvas, mounted on a movable stretcher, and will, undoubtedly, be finer than any of those which at present adorn the walls of King Chapel. Mr. Frederic Vinton, of Boston, one of the finest portrait painters in the country, will be the artist. The subject selected is "Adam and Eve," by Flandrin, one of the decorations in the church of Saint Germain des Pres, Paris. The original is regarded as exceptionally...
...trouble with these large colleges is that the bulk of the instruction is given by mere tutors. The famous professors at these places, whose names adorn the college catalogues, do not lecture more than once or twice a day, perhaps only two or three times a week, and never conduct any of the regular class work which forms the backbone of a good college course. Even Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as we have at Rochester, because with all her wealth, her classes are too many and too large to admit of approved ability and experience...
...visitor who for the first time enters a students room at Harvard is struck with the great number of photographs which adorn his walls. They are one of the best incentives to an artistic spirit which accompany student life. The interest which is taken in this branch of art has been revived by the distribution throughout the college of "Catalogues of Photographic Reproductions of Works of Art." These little books open up to the student a source of artistic enjoyment which can hardly be equalled by any other means as economical. There is something connected with these reproductions...