Word: pied
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article on Amberst College, in Potter's Monthly, gives about as much idea of Amberst as a milking-stool does of a cream-pie...
...Harvard College seems to have taken no active part, doubtless because the system of voluntary recitations had not then been instituted. It seems to us now as if no such exciting event as a battle could have transpired near the College without the students' having a finger in the pie; our only wonder is that the undergraduates did not march to Concord by classes, wearing battered stove-pipes and gowns turned inside out But there was probably no time for the manufacture of the requisite transparencies; and we must remember that the Harvard Drill Corps had not then been organized...
...raisins, nuts, and apple-pie...
...felt to be most appropriate. The form of service used at King's Chapel - the one which Agassiz himself preferred, we believe - was read by the Rev. Dr. Peabody. The singing, under the direction of Mr. Paine, was by the Glee Club; they sang, and very impressively, Cherubini's Pie Jesu, and a hymn for which the music was composed by Mr. Paine. In the seats reserved for the family and friends there were many distinguished men, who had come from distant parts of the country to pay the tribute of their presence to the memory of Agassiz...
...plain why Grain, Flour, and Feed Stores, Meat Depots, Savings Banks, and Life Insurance Companies should find it for their interest to do this thing. We nowhere find advertisements of the Philosopher's Stone, or of the Circular Square; but we do read of "wholesome pie," which falls into the same category. Attorneys-at-Law, Shaving Bazaars, and Fire Extinguishers, all these may be admitted. But we do most seriously advocate the incarceration in an insane asylum of the man who repeatedly advertises in a Western exchange his little hotel, and states, as an extra inducement to college customers, that...