Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over and around them...
...true Latin in verse and prose suo ut aunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigm's of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue; let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." Such classical preparation was given to boys by the ministers in and around Cambridge, who were well educated Englishmen and talked Latin with their pupils. There was also by the college "a faire Grammar school, for the training up of young scholars and fitting them for academical learning," (10) The relative importance of the various branches of academic discipline, as indicated in this...
...make a grand rush for the freshman fence. The last public ceremony of a freshman's life is receiving the sophomore fence, each class has a fence orator and preceding the ceremony seniors form a line, four abreast and followed by the other classes in their order, they march around the campus and cheer each building. Then they march to Pres. Dwight's and receive a short address from him, then to ex-Pres. Porter's where the same ceremony occurs, then to ex-Pres. Woolsey's where they simply cheer. Then they return to the campus. The sophomore orator...
Near Memorial Hall was recently set a charming statue of John Harvard. The young clergyman sits in his chair, his pulpit robe thrown around hime, his book open on his knee, his thin face and tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward...
...last hare and hound run of the season took place yesterday afternoon. It was a fast hunt and was won by the hares, Dana and Cogswell, who started at 3.40 and arrived home at 4.25 after a long run through Longwood and around Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The straps broke which held Cogswell's scent bag in place and he did not run the whole course. The first hound in was Wells, 90, who arrived...