Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...established a scholarship for the purpose of allowing some alumna of one of the colleges connected with the association the privileges of a year's study of the higher branches either in this country or in Europe. The scholarship will amount to $500 yearly and subscriptions have already come in quite liberally...
...were unlimited. The communications received through the lips of the Pythia undoubtedly contained much of truth and falsity mixed together; but they were, nevertheless, of ten times marvels of common sense and good advice, and to the people of that age it is no wonder that they appeared to come direct from a deity. It was not only from the near-lying states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys with rich presents...
...time there have appeared in the CRIMSON communications urging the formation of an Exeter club. Either from utter indifference or from backwardness to take the initiative, the proposition has been passed over in silence. This policy, if persevered in, will result in a gradual decrease in number of men coming from that school to Harvard. The number of students at Exeter is increasing annually, and while the number of those students choosing other colleges after graduation is in proportion to the increased number, the number who come here is at a stand. Still great stress has been laid to success...
...sixty-two men in the senior class at Exeter, all but six will enter some college at the end of the current year. Twenty-six will come to Harvard, fourteen will go to Yale, four will go to Technology, two to Princeton, and the rest to the smaller colleges...
...choir sang Dudley's Buck's "He shall come down like Rain" and Wood-ward's "The Radiant Morn...