Word: looming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...summary shows, in exact numbers, 203 seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen and 46 specials, a total of 928 in the college proper. In the list of courses a closer and more compact arrangement and smaller type makes a pleasing change. Semetic languages and Sanskrit and Zend loom up in a very formidable manner. The descent to freshman studies next following, however, like that to Avernus, is easy - a statement that is perhaps equivocal. Those ancient deceits - the four tables of estimated annual expenses - still maintain their posts of duty in the catalogue, representing with invariable exactness from year...
...loom the locust shrill; the far sky smokt...
...handiwork of Nature's loom...
Woven upon a mythic loom...