Word: sat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small and of no special interest in itself, but in it stands the chair of Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when he wrote "Charles O'Malley" and others of his stirring novels. It is now the property of the college and has held since his time many other famous men. Previous to 1869, when the "Church Act," which has caused much bitter feeling on the part of the Irish...
...about eight o'clock, the students began to come in and to take their seats. At the ends of the tables occupied by the various "Corps" sat their officers. (The "Corps," we may remark, correspond in a way to the Societies, secret or open, in American colleges, but are in every respect very different organizations.) These officers were conspicuous, in full evening dress, with sashes of various colored ribbon, white gauntlets, swords and caps about the size of a saucer, placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers...
...room photographer will be in Cambridge about the 20th for a week. Seniors wishing to have their rooms photographed are requested to make appointments at the studio. The price will be $3.00 for the negative and first print, $1.00 for each succeeding print. All seniors who have not sat for their class photographs are earnestly requested to do so as soon as possible...
...made very beautiful by the moonlight. At Lexington the club rode slowly through, round the common, and back to the Russell House, which, together with several private houses in Lexington was decorated with Chinese lanterns in honor of the club. Here, after a few minutes rest the club sat down to a hearty supper. After supper, songs and speeches followed each other in quick succession. What with the informality of song and speech and the general jollity the time passed only too quickly. Among the songs Mr. Harrison's "Major Gilfeather" took and was encored over and again. The club...
Notwithstanding we have several lantern-jawed seniors, no member of '83, in having his pictures made, has emulated the example of 82's most striking case of attentuatedness. When this physically thin individual sat for negatives, he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, in order to give himself a fictitious appearance of a homo vivus and to remove the suspicion that his photograph was the picture of a skeleton clad in senior clothes...