Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Plain glass is to replace the ground glass in the windows of the rowing room...
...have emerged, at last, from the dark valley of the semis, and find ourselves to-day once more upon the level and pleasant plain of every-day student life. Life is very endurable now, with the semis just passed, and the finals yet dim in the distance. But let us remember the virtuous resolutions made while frantically struggling to get up four minth's work in a single night,- resolutions to master each day's work as it becomes due. For, slowly, yet very surely, the inevitable finals are creeping on, when once more will "the mourners go about...
...models for those of larger colleges. The appearance of the college as the visitor approaches it is very imposing. When the party of which I was one visited College Hill, the snow on the hill gave it a very pleasing appearance. This modern acropolis rises sheer from the plain which surrounds it, and overlooks Cambridge and Somerville. We climbed the steep pathway to the Chapel, but on reaching the top of the hill were met by two men in athletic dress running at the top of their speed, and followed by a little man in whiskers who was crying...
...North Grove street building, which is still used for medical purposes ; and second, in 1883, just one hundred years after the introduction of the study at Harvard, to the present commodious building. On the wall opposite that which contains this bit of history, is a plain white marble tablet, with black lettering. It commemorates the medical students and alumni, twenty-one in number, who gave their lives in defence of the Union, and was presented to the school by the class...
...have gone away from Cambridge for the last time, will look back to the time when he boarded at Memorial with no small degree of pleasure. Even now as we return after a vacation, we feel a certain pleasure in sitting once more among the noisy groups at the plain rectangular tables in the dining hall. It requires only a few months for a student to get used to the hurry-of his fellow students, not of the waiters, and the noise and clatter. If later he happens to take a meal at a private table, he notices the quiet...