Word: scene
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christmas tree are lighted; and then, the gas being turned down, the choir commence singing Christmas carols, until the great bell in the tower booms out the hour of twelve, when Pergolesi's "Gloria in Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene is striking and unique, and well worthy of its academic surroundings. Queen's College, even more than Magdalen, confers benefit on the public, by the retention of old customs. The large number that flock to the Hall every Christmas Day, to see the Boars head, attest the popularity of that...
Harvard Square was the scene of a lively runaway, yesterday afternoon...
...decisions to the opposite side. This objection ignores the fact that in the proposed plan the umpires are alumni. The majority of undergraduates would be biassed in their decisions. But a man who has been out of college for a year or more is too far removed from the scene of college activities to be warped by prejudice or enthusiasm. Moreover, no college would elect a man as umpire whom, after a trial of four years within its walls, it had found to be liable to the least suspicion of partiality or worse motives in judging. For the honor...
...proverb of the crusts of bread, entrusted to the tender care of the merciless waves, which returned after many days in the shape of countless biscuits and rolls. has once more been exemplified; and this time somewhat nearer home than the scene of the original occurrence. A little less than a year ago the predecessor of the DAILY CRIMSON in the province of daily journalism at Harvard, gave vent to its long pent-up feelings on the subject of the strange language in which the Quinquennial catalogue has been printed since the dark ages. This language was reported on good...
Yesterday morning the yard was the scene of an impromptu dog flight between a New foundland and a bull-pup. The former retired from the field on three legs, and the (?) was taken in charge by his master and soundly cuffed...