Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dark beauty. Her face was of rather a heavy cast, yet her features were strongly marked. Her forehead was high and exquisitely moulded, her mouth and chin large and round, and her eyes full, restless, and glowing. A rich clear color trembled through the brown of a cheek that had been tanned by exposure to sun and wind. She had the most beautiful hair that any woman has worn since Helen. It was a soft dark brown, rich, thick, and tremulous...
...always sings as pleasantly as in the last few numbers. The Beacon, however, is not critical enough in its selections. The College Argus contains but little, and that is of interest only to its college. The Niagara Index is wretchedly printed and made up, and is hard reading. The Round Table complains of college indifference. This was a standard subject for Harvard papers about three years ago, but we suppose the evil has just reached Wisconsin. Hor&ae Scholastic&ae is the most pretentious of the papers from the preparatory schools, and has the most literary merit. The Exonian...
...GOOD story has recently come to our ears of Freshman - shall we say ignorance? The scene is a bursary in one of our large colleges. Several men are transacting business with the Bursar. Enter a Freshman, cap on head: after taking a tour of inspection round the room, he in turn comes up to the Bursar's table, and in a loud voice demands "Change for a sovereign, and a shilling in 3d. bits." Curtain falls. - Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal...