Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June, 1613, and ill starred Frederick of Bohemia, with his bride Elizabeth, daughter of James of England, heads a stately train. "The tea-cup time of patch and hood" is upon us now. The Count and Countess of Lenox, Countess of Harrington, Count of Arundel, with a great...
...arrangements for the celebration have now taken such definite shape that the vague doubts about its success which were heard some weeks ago have quite disappeared. Everyone looks forward with confidence to three days of great and memorable festivity...
...formation of a foot-ball eleven at the Boston University is being pushed forward by J. L. Brooks, '90, and the team will probably be organized within a week...
...encourage them by cheering. There is nothing which spurs on a foot-ball team to do its best more than the sight of a crowd of their own classmates. After the splendid score made against the Grotonian's last Wednesday, there is no chance for the "growlers" to come forward with their dismal croakings predicting the defeat of their own team. The work done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that has entered college in some time. For a year or two past, freshman teams have been wont to look upon...
...were successively named, but solemn pauses succeeded; they had all joined the great company of the departed, or, sunk in the vale of years, were unable to attend the high festival of their Alma Mater. At length, when the class of 1774 was named, Mr. Samuel Emery came forward; a venerable old man, a native of Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, who, at the age of eighty-six, after an absence of sixty years from the Halls of Harvard, had come from his residence in Philadelphia to attend this celebration. The Rev. Dr. Ripley, of Concord, of the class...