Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Memorial Hall has been made the victim of several "improvements" during the recess. Part of the woodwork at the west end of the hall has been painted over with a dark red colored pattern which does not seem to be favorably received by the average art critic who boards at the hall. The posts at the east end are now being gilded with an alarming yellow color. The new desks and railing in the auditor's office have been finished. The most popular improvement of all, however, is the placing of a new clock on the west gallery...
...that the sea nymphs, cherubs, thistles and insects are grouped around the edge of a page. One, "a chained monastic," is bound with oaken covers and a pig-skin back. The finest manuscript is one in Dutch, bound in velvet, with back covered with brass of arabesque pattern, having jewels inlaid and some bone figures carved in alto relievo...
...flatter ourselves frequently that we are approaching to the true university spirit here in Cambridge as it is exemplified in England and Germany. Not that any servile copy of our pattern is to be desired, but we have great lessons to learn from our elder and more experienced "foreign cousins." The stamp of the early doctrines gained in their university life is very manifest in the life work of many an illustrious statesman or literrateur, who passed his college years in some intellectual centre, such as Oxford or Heidelberg. Can we sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought...
Lost - On Tuesday, one link sleevebutton, checkered pattern, gold and platinum. Will finder kindly leave the above with Fred, at Drury...
Lost - On Tuesday, one link sleevebutton, checkered pattern, gold and platinum. Will finder kindly leave the above with Fred, at Drury...