Word: northern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side, the moraine is fronted by a plain of sand and gravel, spread out by the wash of ice-water from...
...this time to Henry, Count of Anjou. The alliance is significant to us from its social rather than its political effects. By far the most important part of Elinor's dowry was the new conception of society which she brought with her from the south of France to the northern provinces. Her grandfather. already mentioned, had been the first artistic poet of the modern age, and writing in a modern tongue, the Provincial. His work shows the development in Provence of an entirely new type of society, gathered about the numerous courts, and elaborating the theory of courtly life which...
...Knight" is only French in its materials, for it has been worked up by an English artist of genius. Unfortunately, this poet, though second only to Chaucer in his century, is unknown. The whole poem contains the highest artistic, religious and ethical purpose. It is written in a more northern dialect than Chaucer's. The metre is a combination of alliterative metre and rhyme, and, as is generally the case with such verse the language is somewhat rich and artificial...
...blank form furnished by the Committee on Fellowships, and must be in its hands before July 15, 1895. The award will be made as soon thereafter as practicable, and the successful candidates will be advised to spend the remainder of the summer in study in the museums of northern Europe...
...northern arm of the library is to be set apart for the law library, the western for the administration, the eastern for the Avery Architectural Library, while the southern is to be occupied by the vestibule and adjoining chambers before mentioned. On the second story, which will be approached by the staircases at the four angles of the building, the gallery above referred to will perform the same service as the ambulatory below, and connect the trustees' room and the president's private room on the south, and book stacks containing special libraries and seminary rooms on the east, west...