Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them, and thus gain some honor for the blue and white. They formerly rowed in the gymnasium belonging to the Columbia Grammar School; this, year, however, on account of the increased number trying for positions on the crew, they were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium for the entire season, and are to be seen rowing there every afternoon at half past four o'clock. In order to accommodate the crew, a raised platform has been erected at the further end of the gymnasium...
...sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest and most fundamental human consciousness has religion any sanctity; only by interpreting human history has it any meaning. Around such a service sentiments of reverence and love would gather in time, and college prayers would have a different meaning than that they have...
...SENIORS. The class photograph lists will be sent around to day, two to each member of the class. Please notice the directions on the last page, to send one by March tenth with the pictures wanted underlined and signed, and to keep the other for a memorandum. Sittings must be made faster; at the present rate they will not all be made until fall. It does not require the expenditure of a great amount of energy to attend to the request on the postal cards I have sent, and if those to whom they are sent will attend...
...long after midnight before the company dispersed with a roaring cheer for old Harvard and the singing, with clasped hands around the table, of the 'Auld Lang Syne...
...yesterday the students thronged around the south entrance to University Hall, their "minds with but a shingle thought." Never before in the history of fraternity life has such a shingle been exposed to public view. Its appearance marks a new era in college decorative art. Considered from the standpoint of heraldry the new shingle is grand. On a field (blanc), seme with cuspidores (avgent), is displayed a what-is-it (purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device...