Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Keep, Pinkham, Luce, Lochman, Hamilton, Stedman, J. H. Gray. Robbins, Baker, A. C. Coolidge, Craig, DeGersdoff, Oakman, Appleton, Woods, Frost, Tuthill, L. J. Johnson, A. T. Perkins, Haskell, H. G. Perkins, Giddings, Cushing, Ames, Fletcher, G. F. Buck, Marvin, Von Storch. Disquisitions, Hyde, Barrett, H. E. Peabody, Cotter, Morse, Black, Costello, Daly, W. L. Currier, S. H. Smith, Power. Bemis, Kuhn, Morrison, H. T. Coolidge, Bartol, Sumner, F. R. Jones, Pastorius, R. T. Osgood, Rhinelander, Shattuck, Vogel, Mead...
...spectacle. Perhaps the favorite place was on the Heiligenberg, the lofty hill across the Neckar, and there I took my stand in the garden of the Philosophenhoche. Gradually the daylight faded, and starless night came down. Heidelberg was only a confusion of twinkling lights, and on the vast black hill which loomed precipitously behind it there was nothing to mark the location of the castle. All was impenetrable gloom. The lights from the Fest Halle made long, narrow streaks of light across the dark, rushing Neckar lying far below. Thousands upon thousands of people were on every hand, waiting breathlessly...
...once more. The year of grace, 1386, is drawing toward a close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow four trumpeters, braying right lustily, albeit somewhat dolorously, upon their slender brass horns. Six knights in armor, with iron helmets and prodigious spears are followed by a company of foot soldiers, whose antique swords and oral shields call Walter Scott vividly to mind...
...time of patch and hood" is upon us now. The Count and Countess of Lenox, Countess of Harrington, Count of Arundel, with a great retinue of lords and ladies, accompanying the young wife to her new home by the Neckar. Gloom and sorrow follow close after. A jet black steed in inky trappings is led by, mournful and riderless. Black plumes nod on his head, and a broken shield hangs from the empty saddle. He symbolizes the War of the Orleans Succession and the disasters which plunged the "gay court" in deepest mourning. Under Carl Philipp things are more cheerful...
EIGHTY-SEVEN. - Marshals, Messrs. Keyes, Brooks and F. S. Colidge. Red Togas and Black Mortar-Boards...