Word: descend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each end of the long entry, and will reach several feet above the upper story. This latter extension is made in order that students in the upper story of the centre hall, which is one story higher than the ells, after crossing the roof of the ell can easily descend the ladders. At the head of the third story an iron balcony will be placed...
...volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...
...assertions contained in the article in question. The author of the article is charged especially with indefinite accusations which he does not substantiate. This alleged fault of his can hardly be deemed a fair criticism, for it was not in the province of the writer publicly to descend to personalities. That he has grounds for his complaints will certainly be admitted by many fair-minded men who are familiar with the history of college affairs during the past few years. It is to the credit of these college organizations, as the Crimson curiously enough admits, that they are what they...
...three high arches, the central one supported at each end by eight isolated columns of polished granite, while at the extreme ends of the side arches are four similar columns. From the extreme right of the porch runs the spiral staircase in the turret by which professors may either descend into the private lavatories in the basement or ascend into the large room provided for their special use up stairs. Continuing straight through the porch into a large vestibule 14 by 18 one can turn either to the right or to the left, both doors leading to a students coat...
...writer proves, to his own satisfaction at least, that Lacrosse is a dangerous innovation which is making dastardly attempts to uproot and scatter to the winds that venerable root of all - virtue, lawn tennis; and that, if it be not speedily wiped out of existence, untold misery will descend upon the community. The author of the article, - whom we shall take the liberty of dubbing ???, in order to avoid personalities - shows such an ignorance of facts that a little correction of his statements is only fair to all parties. His principle point is that "Lacrosse" (when compared with tennis...