Word: displays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...above, and are caught only by the broadest ears in his audience. Of the custom of planting ivies I have nothing to say. To point to the walls of the Library, against which clinging vines have been planted for at least a score of years, is sufficient. The magnificent display of green foliage hiding the gray stone is justly admired by all who see it. But cannot the next graduating class add their mite to this magnificent display without saying anything about it? Will not the vine last just as long if its roots are not watered with a dissertation...
LAST fall the Rifle Club started upon a successful career, and we are not yet ready to pronounce it defunct. All that is necessary is for some one to display a little energy, effect a reorganization, and the interest to support the undertaking will be forthcoming. The sport is excellently adapted for this season of the year, and it should be remembered the weather will not hold this way forever. We hear that at Yale a rifle club has been formed, and there is a prospect - somewhat faint at present, but a prospect, nevertheless - of a shooting-match next spring...
...grandeur to display the greater might...
...harvest before every examination. The proof of what we say may be found in the number of students who are obliged to spend large sums of money in order to be put up to enough "points" to pass the examinations, and the absolute ignorance of the subject which they display a very short time after the examination is over...
...with Mr. Reeves, and Mr. Morgan succeeded in getting in several hard and lively blows. The bout, which was an exciting one, was decided in favor of Mr. Morgan, who received the prize offered by the Association. A handsome cup, however, which was presented by General Lister for the display of the finest sparring, was awarded by the judges to Mr. Seymour...