Word: clad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last meeting of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen, Alderman Bradford offered the following order: "That His Honor, the Mayor, be requested to communicate with the authorities of Harvard University with a view to securing from them some action which shall prevent improperly-clad students from running in the streets of the city...
...they have to leave the field covered with borrowed garments the ridiculous disappears in the revolting. Now would it be asking too much of the committee who has charge of the tree to see to it that every man who wishes to take part in the struggle shall be clad in a foot ball suit or something which will not be likely to leave him in puris naturalibus and also to require the participants to refrain from settling private feuds at this time. Surely it would be better to be able to look back at the last occasion on which...
...scene opens at King Arthur's court at Christmas. During the festivities a huge knight clad in green enters and challenges anyone to exchange blows with him. Gawain accepts and testing the knight's axe, cut off his head at a blow. The Green Knight, however, unhurt picks up his head and rides off. Gawain is to go to a place called Green Chapel and receive his return blow in a year. After All-Hallow Feast, Gawain sets out for the Green Chapel. At Christmas time he comes to a castie, whose owner, a huge knight, tells him that...
...last uprising of heathenism, a manifestation of savage impatience. The old chiefs, discontented with the present, looked back on the past and remembered only the times when they shot the buffalo, forgetting the intermediate periods of hunger; they forget the days in their youth when they were ill-clad, and remember only the festal days when their bodies were gaudily decorated...
Professor Shaler's paper is virtually an expostion of the plan of education which Harvard is gradually imposing on the country-one that has for its object the needs of each individual student instead of the rigid imposing of an iron clad system...