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Word: gray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...person George W. Brown was strikingly handsome. Tall, spare, one shoulder gracefully bent below the other, expressionless gray-blue eyes, and a chin receding in tender undulations, - such was he at ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN AT HARVARD. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...there came a knock at the door. To my shout of "Come in!" there entered a person whom I at once recognized as the wonderful boy I had so long desired to see. His head was small; his eyes had a sleepy look in them, and were of dull gray; his nose inclined to the pug; and his mouth was large and inexpressive; but his hair was what chiefly attracted my attention. It was long and unkempt, and had a sort of character to it that struck my fancy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACAULAY'S SCHOOL-BOY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...President, in the chair. The following appointments were confirmed: George Russell Briggs, A. B., as tutor in mathematics for three years from September 1, 1878; Sumner Burritt Stiles, A. B., 1876, as Procter. As Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year, from January 1, 1879, William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton. The election of Reginald Heber Fitz as professor of pathological history was referred under the rules to Hon. Messrs. Codman, Wyman, and Green. The Visiting Committee were increased as follows: To visit the observatory, Randolph Coolidge, Charles F. Choate, Alexander Agassiz; to visit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

Trusting thyself unto the ocean gray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPARTURE. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

...river, to know that the Captain of the 'Varsity will be with us this year, and will take his old thwart in the boat. To '82 we are looking with interest and expectancy. '82! The very figures warn us of our increasing baldness and our fast-falling gray hairs. May the Fates spare us long enough to see the Freshmen well started on the road to a "liberal education," and our own hopes realized in that tangible but often mystical thing, a degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

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