Word: procession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...young ladies of Vassar feel quite at home in studying chemistry. They are at once on friendly terms with Sal Ammoniac, Sal Soda, Sal Prunelle, Mag Nesium, Moll Ybdenum, Ann Timony, Cad Mium, Ruth Enium, Pete Roleum, Al Uminum, Doll O'Mite, Bessi Mer's Process, Mary Otte's Law, 'Emma Tight, and Ann Alysis...
...failure. You keep boys steadily at school from the time they are big enough to run alone, pick out their studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere cramming machines, and then, after this process has gone on ten or a dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave an explosive snort of indignation. "What wonder...
...rifles for Peabody breech-loaders and corresponding accoutrements. The amendment to the Constitution carried at the last meeting provides that attendance at half the number of regular company drills (one weekly) shall be necessary to entitle a member to target-shooting in the spring. A drum corps is in process of formation, and Freshmen or Sophomores, having instruments and being able to use them, are invited to join. Recruits will be received at any time, and the Constitution lies for signature at the Gymnasium...
...recognize a few lineaments of one or two of our most intimate friends. One man, with whose clear, bright eye we were all familiar, comes out under the "Celebrity Photographer's" manipulation Homeric in his blindness. Another, whose mild, good-natured countenance is almost proverbial, by some mysterious process is changed into a hardened roue just returned after ten years' dissipation on the Continent. Another's is very good, if considered as an ambitious study, but is very little of a likeness. In early Greek art it was customary to have the name of the subject printed under the picture...
...compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental, would take place. Should we fail, by reason of a morning nap or otherwise, to reach the hall before this early hour, either breakfast or chapel must be sacrificed. A modifying suggestion to extend the breakfast hour from seven to half past eight has been made...