Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...diversity of colors. Indeed, the chief aim of the artists seems to have been to produce a contrast. Thus, green, red and yellow are often in most uncomfortable proximity. But there is an evident originality in the way that the sea nymphs, cherubs, thistles and insects are grouped around the edge of a page. One, "a chained monastic," is bound with oaken covers and a pig-skin back. The finest manuscript is one in Dutch, bound in velvet, with back covered with brass of arabesque pattern, having jewels inlaid and some bone figures carved in alto relievo...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I could not help noticing the impatience expressed by nearly all the passengers of a Union car yesterday, at the long delay caused by the stop at the railroad crossing. The conductor slowly wandered towards the track, both hands in his pockets, turned around without so much as looking up or down, and in the same leisurely manner sauntered back to the rear platform of the car. That the cars should be stopped before the crossing is a wise and necessary precaution, but the question naturally arises, if the flagman, who is employed for the very purpose...
...learned professors the other day, while marking the list of absentees, remarked, as he jotted down the names, "Mr. S. and Mr. R. absent;" and then a moment after, glancing around, innocently queried, "Is there any one else here absent...
...USUAL OUTCOME.The suspended sophomores of Dartmouth have surrendered and have been allowed to resume their former relations with the college. The questions which, by their refusing to answer them, caused their suspension, have been fully answered, and the names of the participants in the recent midnight demonstration around the college and professor's residence are consequently known...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Although the year is nearing its end, the senior class have as yet made no arrangements about admitting freshmen to the exercises around the tree on class day. Last year this subject was agitated somewhat, and gave rise to some very weak actions on the part of the senior class. The arrangement at that time was that the freshman class were to be excluded from the tree unless they won a game of base-ball with Yale. This arrangement is a similar one to the "fence" plan at Yale. But the propriety of such a rule here...