Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crowd, justly indignant at the impudence of the claim. Their roughness, violence and foul play were inexcusable and wholly ungentlemanly. The Institute of Technology also complain of the unnecessary foul play experienced by them at the hands of Yale in New Haven, being throttled and handled in a bull-dozing way, and probably Harvard was affected by this feeling to a certain extent, especially after the disabling of their comrade, Wesselhoeft...
...when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened by some skeleton hand. The paper had a sulphurous smell...
...their actions is still rigidly enforced. Dire are the consequences for the unluckly "undergrad." who is caught by these ever-watchful spies dressed in aught but traditional gown and mortar-board. Proctors, it is said, however, are easily avoided by the wary. It is less easy to avoid the "bull-dogs," as the body-servants of the proctors are called. But, says the London Graphic, "It has been darkly hinted that 'bull-dogs' are corruptible by gold, and even silver." But more curious than either proctors or "bull-dogs" are the university spies or night police, who vigilantly watch...
...Bull is at work in Cambridge on a memorial volume on her husband...
...became the property of his widow, who finally transferred it to her only son, George Lafayette Washington, who had married the daughter of her brother, Rev. John B. Clemson, of Claymont, Delaware. George Lafayette Washington died six or seven years ago, leaving the medal to his widow, Mrs. Ann Bull Washington, of whom it was obtained by fifty citizens of Boston, who subscribed a sum of money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While the civil war was in progress George Lafayette Washington lived eleven miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main...