Word: seales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seal of Harvard College, with its Latin inscription, "For Christ and the Church," is printed on a prospectus of the veterinary school, which is soon to open. The New York Herald has this from a student's letter in regard to it: "If Harvard can introduce Christianity into the horse business, disbelief in miracles will...
...been suggested that a figure of the Hollis pump would make a good seal to put upon the shingles of the Harvard Total Abstinence League...
Last Saturday was the eightieth birthday of our venerable ex-president, Dr. Hopkins. In the evening the faculty, with their wives, called to give him a surprise party, and the senior class to present him with an elegant pair of seal skin gloves. Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins received their guests most cordially, and a very pleasant evening was enjoyed...
...interlocutor was a young man of eighteen or so, elegantly attired in a suit of white cloth of a peculiar texture. On his right sleeve was what I at once recognized as a Tabular View, on his left a College Directory, on the back of his coat was the seal of Harvard in crimson; he wore a cap on which appeared the number 2004. From this last, and from his general expression, I judged him a Freshman...
...many excellences, no handsome and popular upper-class man became his guide and friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till he was nearly black in the face. They made him crawl under the table and bark like a dog (which he did very naturally, with a puppy-like whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed...