Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brighter radiance gilds the roof of Yale...
...seen in our cut; and, in addition, on the opposite side, a specimen sumons-card under the old regime, labelled, "The good old chestnut; " and on the end, comparative statistics showing the inroads of the diseases in question made during the compulsory system. The opposite side of the roof bore the motto - "College Cooler; Usual Term. 15 Minutes...
...flush of manhood have managed to dispose of sixty or seventy mugs of beer in a single evening, and who have therefore borne for a year the proud title of "Beer King" of Heidelberg? Tobacco, too, must claim its due share of our attention. This roof above us is high, the hall is vast, the space seems limitless. Is it possible for us to fill it all with tobacco smoke? Yea, verily: or ever the morrow's sun. shall rise this vast space shall be packed with dense smoke as with a tangible substance, so that from the flattest-sprawled...
...with the excited populace. The procession has taken a half hour to pass and is considerably over a mile long. The horses have been especially noteworthy for their spirit and beauty. We join the huzzas of the Heidelbergers, of whom not one is silent. Even our friend on the roof - or in the roof - gives tongue with prodigious power and adds his contribution to the universal roar which pronounces the procession a glorious success...
...their wares: Photographs of Heidelberg, programmes of the procession, jubilee medals, whips, whistles, badges, sandwiches and pretzels. As nine o'clock approaches, the excitement becomes intense. Every available standing place is occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from...