Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corner stone of the new building of the University of New Mexico was laid at Santa Fe, Oct. 22. The institution, which now has eighty students-over fifty of whom are in the academic department-was organized...
...meeting of the Longfellow Memorial Committee, held yesterday in London, it was finally voted that a bust of Longfellow be place in the poet's corner. The committee includes Tennyson, Max Muller, Geo. Augustus Sala and Thomas Hughes...
Daniel Pratt has at length unearthed the corner-stone of modern knowledge. He declared that "the unabridged dictionary is the most sane and valuable book in the world; that it is the key to every problem...
...members of the University Lacrosse Team will meet this afternoon at the Old Colony depot (corner of South and Kneeland streets) in time to take the 6 P. M. train, Fall River Line. Tickets will be distributed at the depot...
...BALLADES IN HARVARD CHINA. By E. S. M. Boston: A. Williams & Co., Old Corner Bookstore." "Sly Ballades in Harvard China" is a volume belonging to the school of Harvard writers which has produced "The Little Tin Gods on Wheels" and "Rollo's Tour to Cambridge." Nevertheless, these verses have a character of their own; their humor is aptly termed "sly." The subjects chosen are always unpretending, the metres used are appropriate and handled with a pleasant facility, and the execution of nearly every piece is felicitous and successful. The book throughout is pervaded with the genuine college spirit...