Word: around
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ners by two inches. Then the pent-up enthusiasm of the whole junior class broke forth into indiscriminate cheering and the team was borne away on the shoulders of their classmates. Gilman, on the shoulders of four men, was carried around the "yard" followed by a crowd of '85 enthusiasts cheering until they were hoarse when they took him to his room in Matthews. While the juniors were thus disporting themselves to their own satisfaction the large crowd quietly filed out of the gymnasium and the third winter meeting of 1884 was over...
...University honors, being twice awarded the Chancellor's medal for English verse, and also obtaining the Greaves Essay prize. Without doubt, it was only by the life of easy sociability which he led, and by the active part which he took in all the affairs of the student world around him, that he was prevented from winning the highest honors. As it was, though he failed to secure a place in the Tripos of his year, he gained a Fellowship with distinction, and narrowly missed being awarded one of the three silver goblets for excellence in declamation...
...they passed Butchertown, the victim sawed serenely away and the bowman even imageined that he splashed less than any man in the boat. When they finally drew up to the float, and while the crew were panting for wind, spitting cotton and wiping their dripping faces, the "passenger" looked around, with a childlike smile upon his unflushed face, and softly remarked...
...sadly in need of such a place to keep their machines in, and also it is a good place for a reading-room and billiard room. There is space enough in the building to make four or five large rooms. The Pope Manufacturing Co. had last summer several agencies around the country, where they kept bicycles and tricycles to let; they also taught riding. Now, perhaps they could be prevailed upon to take one of these rooms and fit it up, having stalls which they would let to students for bicycles, the rent of stall might include care of machine...
...close of the meeting the freshmen formed a procession and carried three of their tug-of-war team around the yard, cheering...