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Word: horizon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given to the university by Mrs. Metcalf for a botanic garden and for such other uses as the university should deem best. The site selected is an excellent one for astronomical observations as the view is unobstructed, except toward the west, where it is cut off close to the horizon, but at no point higher than from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brown Observatory. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

This is practically the rule in Germany, and if it could be adopted here, the cloud that now lowers on our political horizon would speedily vanish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dangers to our Public School System. | 4/5/1886 | See Source »

...great blessing to be born surrounded by a natural horizon. The Old Gambrel-roofed House could not boast an unbroken ring of natural objects encircling it. Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story house which had been its neighbors for a century or more. To the south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Old Holmes House. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

With our vacation just over and the midyears looming up before us, like a dark cloud on the horizon, we naturally feel that we are indeed in the very midst of the stern realities of student life, and, just as naturally, we are somewhat prone to resent any attempts to impose any extra work upon our already overburdened shoulders. But just at this critical time, the Juniors and Sophomores are fiddled with dismay at the announcement that a theme will be required from them on Wednesday next. Well, the ingenuity displayed by our instructors in selecting inopportune moments for springing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1885 | See Source »

...recent events have changed the aspect of the political horizon. Blaine and Logan have been elected to stay at home, and Cleveland has fulfilled the hopes of his party. The Democratic students now have their innings, and arrangements are now being perfected for a jollification which shall totally eclipse the previous efforts of the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excited Vassar. | 11/22/1884 | See Source »

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