Word: protectors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mysterious and beautiful process by which out of the confused and tumultuous experiences of countless men, there issues as sure as we gaze upon their one great image which is strangely at once the aggregate of embodiment of them and also something greater than them all, their protector and muse, their teacher, friend and mother. It is out of the infinite human experience and pathos of this place; it is out of this, in which these buildings and these grounds have been the scenes of so much human life for these 250 years of struggles and hopes and fears...
Says the Courant, speaking of the junior promenade: Next Tuesday evening a beautiful young lady, on being shown the championship flags in boating, base-ball, foot-ball, etc., etc., (we haven't room to enumerate), will ask of her athletic protector, "When the other colleges have promenades what do they use for decorations?" Reply, with pleased smile-"Oh, Harvard needs no decoration, and Princeton uses a lacrosse stick...
...credible to any society, to any country that such a thing as this can be done? That girls and women can go safely, comfortably, happily from one end of this country to the other, with only their own quiet and modest behavior as a protector. An American man never seems to question the propriety at all. One glance tells him the lady, alone, helpless, in need perhaps of some service. He does the right thing at the right time, as by a fine instinct, which is surely wanting in the men of many older countries. The American men, young...
Some experiments were recently tried by O'Rouke and White of the Buffalo club with the new catcher's protection, which is a flat rubber case, filled up with air and worn over the chest and abdomen. O'Rouke put the protector on and claims that he could not fell a ball thrown by White at a distance of ten feet...
...next opened her eyes it was broad day. The fire was out, and looking through the branches that formed her door, she could see the brook, rippling silver-bright in the morning sun. She remembered her situation with a smile and a blush; and went out to find her protector...