Word: cumbrous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday the first revolutions of the cumbrous wheels of the college machine made us aware that a new, and for many of us the final, year of student life had begun. To-day the mill is in full swing, busily engaged in the task of grinding out its annual grist of A. B.'s. The clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General...
...deserved tribute to a popular Harvard professor - the edition of Hill's Rhetoric, printed for the blind. The cumbrous volume may be seen on the desk in the reading room at the library and is well worth looking...