Word: ring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fine weather materially influenced the attendance, materially influenced the attendance, and the gay-hued dresses of the many ladies present lent color and variety to the dense rows of lookers on. A number of graduates were present who occupied the forms ranged along on either side of the contesting ring. The gallery and ends of the hall were reserved as usual for the ladies and their escorts. The numbers present were larger than a week ago and must have been close upon 1,500. The good crowd in order and those with reserved seat tickets easily found their places...
...Doherty. This announcement caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of those present, who called loudly for Baxter. The cause given for the decision was that Baxter did not lead. On the other hand it may be said that whenever he approached his man the latter withdrew from the imaginary ring, choosing his own time for a rush at Baxter...
...Tennyson comes Mr. Ruskin with 462 votes; Mr. Matthew Arnold is third with 455, and Mr. Browning fourth with 448. Mr. Ruskin's chief work is, according to the number of votes it received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring and the Book. The historians are headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley...
Lost-a plain gold ring at the north end of the college yard. The finder will please leave the same at Brock and Leavitt...
Lost-a plain gold ring at the north end of the college yard. The finder will please leave the same at Brock and Leavitt...