Word: robe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Near Memorial Hall was recently set a charming statue of John Harvard. The young clergyman sits in his chair, his pulpit robe thrown around hime, his book open on his knee, his thin face and tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward...
...used on the occasion was very well adapted, the stage in one scene being an exact reproduction of room I, which is occupied by Miss Braislin, the Professor of Mathematics. The costumes were Japanese, with the exception of that of Latisha, which was classical. The Mathematikado wore a black robe of angular cut, embellished with geometrical figures in white; Trig Trig on the contrary was a pretty young girl in white, with wondrous problems pictured on her dress in black lines and figures; Ayty Ayt was an interesting and susceptible young man; and Bot Ah Nee wore a gown embroidered...
...instead of small ones. Why do they stop with three or four divisions? Why not go a step further and make one division, viz: "passed"; or even still further and make no division at all? The fallacy of their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still remains. They might as well ask the instructor to mark the books with a red pencil instead of a blue one. It would lighten the weight of the examination just as much...
Lost.- Near the college, a carriage lap-robe. Will the finder please leave it at Leavitt and Peirce...
...most notable exception was in the years immediately proceeding the rebellion. Then the pulse of Harvard beat in time with the pulse of the nation. Books were laid aside for the musket, familiarity of the classics war superseded by the knowledge of military tactics; the robe of the student was replaced by the uniform of the soldier. Academic honors lost their charm when the Union was in peril, and noble literary ambitions were as dust in the balance when the nation called for defenders. There were five hundred and thirty-five Harvard men among the volunteers of the North...