Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...swords and caps about the size of a saucer, placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers and high boots. The tables on the platform were occupied, the front one by professors who were to join with the rest in celebrating the festive occasion, and the one behind it by the "Prasidium," consisting of six officers from the different Corps...
...otherwise, would long since have been theirs. However all this may be, it can hardly be disputed, we think, that long-continued and meritorious services should have earned them by this time a pension and retirement from all active service on half-pay, so that they might spend the rest of their days cropping the tender grass of some bleak New England pasture, or nibbling from well-kept stalls the fragrant...
...Homer so much. Of course when I 'went in' for classics, I had to read him a good deal, and so had the other girls, but I don't think any of us cared much about it. As long as we could get through it somehow and pass, the rest didn't matter...
...college has reason to expect a most interesting concert this evening. We are informed that the Glee Club has several very good new college songs. This will be sure to make a marked improvement in the club's work, as college songs have always been its weak point. The rest of the singing is sure to be excellent, as the club has splendid material and has been rehearsing more diligently than for years past. The Pierian is larger than ever before and some of its new members from the lower classes are up to professional standards. The Sodality...
...Faulty construction: not having the summer, which had to carry the bulk of the load, rest firmly on the pile; not fastening the pile to the other parts of the structure, and not sinking the pile firmly into the gravel...