Word: ornaments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constructed across the Charles river from West Chester Park in Boston to Front street in Cambridge, General Hazard Stevens has written a letter in which he expresses some very sensible opinions. He says that the plan prescribed by the law, which provides for a low, flat structure without any ornamental features is not worthy of two such growing cities as Boston and Cambridge. The bridge proposed would be unsuitable for the broad river basin which is soon to be surrounded by a series of parks. The bridge should not be for merely useful purposes, but also for an ornament...
...become a member of the Association, and will thus obtain the right to use the grounds, and will receive a shingle. The Association is now having a very pretty model made, which can be obtained by members at a very low price, and which will make a handsome ornament in any room. Immediately after the mid-years the annual dinner of the Association will take place, at which all members are entitled and invited to be present...
...range of possibility. And while the details in themselves have been of a most absorbing character, the substantial honors so plentifully conferred upon our faculty are the chief reasons that this great celebration has been a significant one to Yale. The title is in no case the sole ornament of the man, and it is safe to venture that a good majority have by perseverance and superior abilities acquired reputations destined to be permanent...
...form of a book of one hundred pages which, it is by no means an exaggeration to say, is unique among collections of college song, both for the artistic taste displayed and for the thoroughness of the work done. The book is bound in the university colors and will ornament any home. As the most recent compilation of Harvard glees-it is invaluable. For example here is presented, among other well known songs, "Johnny Harvard," "Lizette," "A Capital Ship," "The Rose of Worthersee," "The Eddystone Light," "Thou art my own Love," beside several songs written for the collection...
...President of the University; his fame shall not, to use his own language, this day be left to 'a dogged dirge and a Latin epitaph': - we pronounce him while he lives, in our mother tongue, the ornament of the forum, the senate and the academy...