Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Late in the afternoon last Sunday, and probably also on other days, the frog-pond in the Botanical Garden was worth visiting. Multitudes, almost myriads, of frogs either sat along the margin of the pond, sunning themselves, or leaped and plunged and frolicked in the shallow water, showing as unmistakable signs of fun as kittens show in their play. Their actions were very droll, and the shrill chorus of little voices that grew in number as the sun sloped to the west, was extremely pleasant to hear. They are, perhaps, of the same stock as the ancient Greek frogs...
About twelve or fifteen Harvard men attended the funeral ceremonies of Emerson at Concord on Sunday last...
...notes. The Boston papers of late years, it is well known, have been devoting much attention to college news and particularly to Harvard matters; several indeed find it worth their while to employ special college reporters. The Post publishes daily Harvard College notes; and the college articles of the Sunday Herald and Globe are already famous among their student readers...
Glowing tributes were paid to Darwin's memory at the leading London churches last Sunday...
...writer of the account of the Co-operative Society in Sunday's Globe states that the directors of the society have not yet accepted the offer of the free use of the old gymnasium made by the corporation, being in doubt as to the advisability of assuming the business of the storage and sale of student's furniture on commission. It is much to be hoped that this doubt and hesitancy will be felt no longer on their part. Almost no branch of the business of the society would be more useful and popular than this, if it were established...