Word: hung
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...High street, the visitor reaches the first quadrangle called St. John the Ba tist's. In this quadrangle an annual service is held from an old altar standing in one corner, on the day set aside as sacred to that saint. The court is strewn with rushes and hung with green stuffs on that day, probably to represent the wilderness in which St. John preached. At one end of the court stands the Monument Tower, where all the college archives are kept, and next to it the Founder's Tower, lately restored and furnished throughout by Sir Gilbert Scott...
...times of Queen Elizabeth under her auspices. The grounds are large and on them the college sports are held each year; but it is inside that we find most to hold the attention. The dining-hall, like our Memorial Hall, contains quite a collection of portraits. Among them, hung over the entrance door, is a full length of Frederick, Prince of Wales, taken in 1828. Pictures of Lord Caines, Flood, Napier, Lord Kilwarden, who was dragged from his coach and murdered in the streets, long ago, and of many others. The hall itself, is long and narrow with windows high...
Folks prophesied John would be hung...
...portrait of Prof. F. H. Hedge, painted by Miss Cranch, of Cambridge, has just been hung in the faculty room in University. It is the gift of a Cambridge lady...
...students who are in the habit of purloining the signs hung on the steward's door at Memorial announcing that visitors are not admitted on Sunday, were only aware of the amount of annoyance they cause the officers, we feel sure that they would desist from this childish practice. We do not doubt but that the steward would furnish any student who wishes it, a copy of the placard, and we hope that in the future those who do wish them will apply at the office for them, not steal them from the door...