Word: hilled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Delta Upsilon Fraternity has just issued its Quarterly of November, 1885. The contents of the pamphlet consists of an oration delivered before the fraternity by Dr. O. P. Gifford, upon "The Problem of Life," an ode by Mr. Hill, Harvard, '85, a poem by Prof. Dudley of Cornell, and reports and letters from the various chapters of the society. Dr. Gifford's oration is a curious digest of the Platonic theory of Reminiscence and of Wordsworth's adaptation of it. It is in many respects a notable address, showing a tolerable grasp upon the real significance of our modern methods...
...toboggan club, organized in Brookline, proposes to have a slide on Wright's Hill...
...dignified three ordinary hotel coaches; but then one could sit on top and nearly tumble off, so what more could be wanted? At any rate, from this height of vantage the town was taken by storm; passing teams were urged to a race, and that, too, while climbing a hill; the hotel was, however, soon reached, and the prospective contest prevented. There ensued a scene of confusion worse confounded than to some seemed necessary. It must be decided how to arrange rooms, and a good half hour was consumed in getting settled. That done, and supper over, a regiment...
...been bold enough to go west and inflict its bane on western printers of college catalogues, who find the capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday." A daisy on a hill-side is a picture that appeals to our most poetic natures. This item for a time completely absorbs our thoughts, until of a sudden we read with greatest surprise that "Miss Harris has a class in painting." The "fast express (limited)" brings us home with...
Saturday afternoon at 2.41, Webster, '87, and Dana, '88, hares, started from Matthews for the longest run of the season. Eight minutes later they were followed by about seven hounds. The course was through Watertown, Newton, around Chestnut Hill reservoir, through Brighton and Allston to the Brookline bridge, where the break was made for home, the whole distance being about thirteen miles. The hares reached the gymnasium at 4.41, followed, one minute later by the first hound, Bowen, '87. The second hound in was Marquand, '89. It will be seen that the hounds won, but probably by a slight irregularity...