Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...savor of many a meal in process of preparation. We must confess that it was with some misgivings that we started on our tour of inspection. It has been said that if we once could behold the manipulations of the "culinary artists," we would never again be able to enjoy a dinner without the horrible vision rising before our eyes. But let it be said to the credit of the steward and the management, that, although we were there at a time when there is the most confusion and general disorder-just as the dirty dinner dishes are coming down...
...Students Lecture Association of Michigan University is to enjoy lectures and readings by the following eminent gentlemen : Prof. Richard A. Proctor, George W. Cable, Mark Twam, Carl Shurz, thomas Nast, and Henry Ward Beecher...
...great crowds came out upon the walls of the cities as they passed by, until they came to a city called Nouvelle Yorkum, where a strange sight met their eyes. Here were twenty-two children caressing one another and rolling about on the soft grass. Greatly did they enjoy this sport, and their parents assembled in great multitudes to witness their play. Now some of the children were painted red (for such are the rules of the game) thereby adding greatly to the effectiveness of the exhibition. But the Three Important Persons very foolishly mistook their sportive play for angry...
Cornell University is to enjoy a reading by Mark Twain and George W. Cable...
Alone among American institutions of learning, did it enjoy the privilege of electing a representative to the state legislature. The period of study as at Cambridge and Oxford covered 3 years. The first college building was planned by Sir Christopher Owen the architect of St. Pauls. Five years after the first commencement exercises held at the beginning of the last century, the building, with the library and physical apparatus, was destroyed by fire, at a time when the colonial legislature was holding its sessions in its walls, curiously co-incident with the fate that befell Harvard Hall in 1764. Unfortunate...