Word: saints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred acres. passing through a narrow gateway on the High street, the visitor reaches the first quadrangle called St. John the Ba tist's. In this quadrangle an annual service is held from an old altar standing in one corner, on the day set aside as sacred to that saint. The court is strewn with rushes and hung with green stuffs on that day, probably to represent the wilderness in which St. John preached. At one end of the court stands the Monument Tower, where all the college archives are kept, and next to it the Founder's Tower, lately...
...last selection-Ballet music to Henry VIII. by Saint Saeans-was a very happy piece of descriptive music of a rather high order as regards the orchestration...
...Saint Patrick was a good mon and an eddicated mon, but he didn't drive the snakes out of Ireland - for there never were any snakes in Ireland...
...Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made a 'spurt,' or a 'rush,' or a 'flunk,' he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille, were that old gentleman here to catch them. To the student, the Boulevard Saint Michel is the Boul Mich; his 'den' is his boite. . . . The Parisian students do not, to any great extent, indulge in rowing, athletics or gymnastics. Fencing is the exercise that seems to be most in vogue, while boxing has also made some headway among the youth of France. They...
...large body of distinguished men was assembled one bleak, cold night of last February in Appleton Chapel. It was a moving sight, - partly because they were obliged to walk about in order to keep warm. Doctor B-rt-l's "serene, saint-like face" was all aglow from the effects of a walk in the wind; whereas the muscular Christianity of Ph-ll-ps Br-ks was merely gently stimulated by the chilly atmosphere. Mr. J-mes T. F-lds had quite forgotten to follow T-nnys-n about and ask, "How do you feel now?" but stood shivering over...