Word: cross
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gilt cross above the entrance of the Library is said to have been brought from Louisburg at the time of its surrender to Sir William Pepperel and the Massachusetts troops, in 1745. This date is said to have been painted on it, with a further inscription, when it was preserved formerly among other relics in Harvard Hall; but, after the removal of the library from that building in 1841, these relics were transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited, and, in a fire in which that building was consumed, the inscription on the cross...
Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow passage which ran down the middle. I noticed that much applause followed this simple action, and have since heard that these young dogs (I will pollute the tombs of their forefathers) call this expression of feeling the uhoodhup...
...cross-country...
...shall be placed in the order in which they cross the finish line...
CHEMISTRY, I believe, is one of the popular departments here. All my friends seem to have electives in it, including even Simpkins, who is studying mineralogy to improve his eyesight. Heaven knows there's need of improvement, for he is near-sighted, cross-eyed, and, according to Dr. Jeffries, color-blind. I don't elect Chemistry; in fact, I know so little about it that at the dinner-table, when the Freshman who has heard Cook's lectures asks me to "approximate the H2O," I stare stupidly at him, and cannot understand that he wishes me to pass...