Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Poet's Land, my Lady dwells...
...supreme. Byron speaks of the "maid of the ever twinkling feet," but Byron never could have told about "the nervous movements and demonstrations which indicated the bewitching power of the music to which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below." The scene, we are told, "was one from fairy land," with "generous bowls of lemonade" scattered around, (could the ordinary mortal imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass...
...village of Marais, Switzlerland, has been destroyed by a land-slide...
...meeting yesterday the Board of Overseers concurred with the president and fellows in the following appointments: F. A. Walker, lecturer on the tenure of land; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy; and C. P. Parker instructor in Greek and Latin for the current academic year. The board voted that it is not at present expedient to consent to the vote of the president and fellows to assign certain scholarships to special students...
...Senate yesterday Mr. Logan continued his speech in opposition to the Fitz-John Porter bill, and a substitute was introduced for the bills providing for the forfeiture of certain land-grants to certain railroads...