Word: styling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fungus-like structure into a swimming-bath. This reminds one of The Last Days of Pompeii, and excites in the mind a dazzling vision of sybaritic splendor. But we fear that a tincture of Freshmen in Fresh Pond H2 + (?) would cause the bath to be too much after the style of the Leukerbad, on the Gemmi, to be popular with many of the students...
...FAIR correspondent of the Tripod is exceedingly angry with certain ladies who consider that "no girl with any self-respect would go through a grove with a gentleman after dark." If the young lady be half so pleasing as her literary style, we are ready to practically indicate our assent to her protest at any time that she may choose to designate...
...Philip Sidney and Epaminondas, as illustrating Chivalry and Patriotism. These figures, which will be about four feet ten inches in height, are to occupy the greater portion of the spaces above the ventilators, in the two parts of the window under the trefoil; around them, in a style corresponding with the subject, will run a decorative border, which, in the Sidney window, will properly be Elizabethan, and in the Epaminondas window, Grecian, and, above, there is to be a belt with the names of the subjects. The ventilators underneath are to be occupied by representations of episodes appropriate...
...south side of the Hall, is exposed - is directed to be constantly considered by competitors, in determining the tones of color to be employed in the construction of the window; and there is also great stress laid on the request to avoid ecclesiastical effects, as the general style of the window is to be essentially decorative...
...prospects of the University Crew seem favorable. There are a dozen men working hard for positions upon it. A welcome bit of news is that the old rowing-weights are to be abandoned, and in their place a new style, greatly superior, substituted. This new rowing apparatus will be, as far as the kind of work goes, the same as that in the boat. What is to all intents and purposes an oar will be used, and this, at the end near the fulcrum, is attached to a piston. When the power is exerted, the piston is made to force...