Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change our own fare for the better; some inseparable obstacle has always stood in the way; so, it is perhaps too much to expect them to intercede for the waiters, who have certainly been ill-treated...
When the college was founded daily services were held morning and evening in the tutor's room, where "that Freshman class of one," of which Dr. Holmes tells us, recited its little lessons and also was made to bend beneath the birch. But as the college grew, and more ample accommodations were given, the building known as Common Hall, where the books of the library were stored, was made the place of religious worship...
...most of the freshmen), been playing on the freshman team? Is it the fault of the freshman captain, or has our courtesy in regarding dropped men, as in all their social relations, still members of the class with which they entered, had the effect of making them consider it beneath their dignity to serve their college on a freshman team...
...Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency was a silhouette of a gentleman embracing a girl, with the two mottoes, "Inter armas leges...
...those massive battlements skyward and has failed, though the Great Tower at the corner was blown up. The tooth of time has gnawed unceasingly, yet not all ungently, upon the ruin. From that gaping window Elizabeth of England looked out many a time; that octagon tower and the dungeons beneath it could tell strange tales, if they chose; kings and princes have supped and made merry in those halls, and many a tender vow has been plighted in the moonlight on that great stone promenade. But the crimson glory which shines, as their glory shone, is fading already, as their...