Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exciting a contest as is ever seen on the ball field. From start to finish the game was closely contested and abounded with brilliant plays, although the playing was very uncertain and errors were numerous among the Harvard men. The game in many respects was a repetition of the famous sixteeninning game which Princeton won here a few weeks ago, but it differed from the fact that yesterday Princeton held the lead from the start until Harvard tied the score in the sixth inning. Harvard played a magnificent uphill game after Princeton had scored two runs in the first inning...
...Freshmen wore the blue regimentals of the Civil War and carried the famous transparency, "Harvard has been waiting for '90 250 years. Amid the Freshmen ranks came the Navy Club, a club which existed during the first of this century. The thirty laziest men in the class belonged and the most supremely lazy was high admiral. In the parade this favored individual was borne on a red divan on a dray...
Many new acquisitions are now on the road for the museum, chief among which is a cast of Michael Angelo's famous "Madonna and Child," in the Church of S. Lorenzo in Florence. Among other things which are expected is a collection of between one thousand and fifteen hundred photographs, illustrating architecture and sculpture in Southern Italy and Sicily. A collection of photographs illustrating the Dutch school of painting is also...
...Lanteru-illustrations of scenes and places famous in Buddhist story. Sumedha. Maya's dream. The Bo-tree temple. The great reliquaries or stupas...
...examination of the country between Attleboro and Newport. From Newport the party will go to the island of Martha's Vineyard, and take up its headquarters with the Gay Head Indians. At this point the attention of the class will be devoted to the intricate structure of the famous Gay Head cliffs, also to the great terminal moraine and to the encroachment of the sea upon the island. After leaving Martha's Vineyard the party will go to the last section of its work in the district of old lava beds and triassic sandstones about Meriden in the central part...