Word: armour
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...five mullioned windows is to be filled with the arms of the college, and a large tablature containing a memorial inscription written by President Eliot and translated into Latin by Professors Morgan and Greenough. In the extreme left hand of these five windows is to be a soldier in armour with a crimson cape and banner, and in the corresponding right-hand window, a scholar in crimson suit with cap and gown. In the two remaining mullioned windows are to be shrines and short Latin inscriptions to the soldier and scholar. In the four quatrefoils above these windows there will...
...taking a place in the excise, he removed his family to Dumfries, and there spent the shadowed years that remained to him. Although his relations with women were many and complicated, he had in the main a high and noble character. So far from doing wrong to Jean Armour and her family, he did them generous justice, and although he was in a sense disloyal to Mrs. Macklehose-the "Clarinda" of the letters from "Sylvanda"- the disloyalty was necessary to enable him to keep faith with Jean...
...Waltz, "Armour et Printemps," Waldteufel...
...Armour of Chicago has given a million and a half dollars to found the "Armour Institute" for manual training in Chicago...
...deep fatalism broods over the poem, but it is counteracted by a certain manliness. The poem was composed almost wholly by one man and with one definite aim in view. Two destinct strains are felt throughout, one military, one of the sea. Always is heard the clanging of armour, but in the back ground is the unceasing roar of the sea. These legends were sung or rather chanted to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. and together with the peculiar accent and alliteration of the poetry, their reading was made very impressive. Our ancestors were a religious people even when...