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Word: adorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...agent of the Associated Press telegraphed all over the country that a Boston free-love convention had been broken up by Harvard students. Although the statement was entirely unfounded, it was published far and wide, and it also furnished the Graphic's artist with several pictures with which to adorn the front page of that reliable sheet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS vs. HARVARD STUDENTS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...Spring, pours forth mellifluous showers Of gladdening song; sweet violets adorn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...enumerate all the characters that adorn our recitation-rooms would be a task of enormous length. To do justice to them all, I should have to publish several octavo volumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE RECITATION-ROOM. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable, is often salutary. Had Americans, and especially Harvard men, instead of deluding themselves with patriotic excuses, taken a wholesome lesson from their plucky and honorable defeat on the Thames, more silk flags would adorn to-day our Alma Mater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

...students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have in the end something to show for their money. The object in question is the erection of a window in Memorial Hall by the class of '77. Now, as it is intended to ultimately adorn our banqueting-hall with memorial windows erected by the different classes, why should not the class of '77 be one of the foremost in undertaking this work as she has others which have asked her assistance since she came to college? As yet only two classes have interested themselves in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO '77. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

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