Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium at the University of Pennsylvania has been formally thrown open. The general plan of the building is similar to the one at Harvard, and the apparatus is of the latest and most approved pattern. The gymnasium is hardly large enough for the growing needs of the University, but all the appointments are perfect. December 3rd, Dr. J. Williams While lectured to the students on the uses of the several appliances, and the best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present...
...first class is made up of a small minority of the body of alumni, and possibly a professor or two. The second class is the strongest, and if predictions are in order, it is quite safe to say that Yale's next president will be a man of their pattern, though it is likely they will have to yield in their requirement that he must not be a clergyman...
...players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used...
...Harvard Dining Association has lately imported from England 1200 napkins made by special order. The words 'Memorial Hall, Cambridge', are neatly woven in the pattern...
...store of Leavitt and Peirce, whose former store will be taken by Mr. Noera. In the rear of their new store Messrs. Leavitt and Peirce will have a large billiard room, 26 by 82 feet, furnished with seven carved oak billiard tables of the Brunswick and Balke pattern. The billiard room will be fitted with every modern appliance, including cushioned seats, and will be finished in cherry, with a maple floor and inlaid ceiling of glass veneer. Under the extension at the rear of the building will be located the boiler room, in which will be placed a boiler...