Word: reared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Navy Department had information from Rear Admiral Rogers yesterday afternoon saying that his condition was about the same, and, if anything, he is a little more comfortable...
...Pennsylvania endure it, according to the University Magazine: "A stranger coming into chapel would be much shocked at the apparent want of reverence amongst the students. Some are talking about the coming sports, betting on the different events, others are getting up first hour's recitation; while, from the rear, a freshman regales the audience with the exquisite melody of a tin horn. Why is this irreverence? The solution is easy. By compulsion, chapel has lost its sacred character. Instead of being considered the right way to begin the day, it has degenerated into a means of avoiding...
...funeral services of Rear Admiral Scott took place at Washington yesterday afternoon...
...Rear-Admiral Scott, U. S. N., is said to be dying...
...reach the ground. In each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from the window of the room in the gable to the sill of the blind window about eight feet above the ground. These fire-escapes are to be placed in position soon." Meanwhile Harvard is left to the saving grace of the Cambridge fire department (vide Lampoon) and of hypothetical...