Word: topped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other branch of athletics? Hitherto the lacrosse men have failed to secure any other place than a portion of the field to the southwest of the old society building. All this spring they have been using this ground, although they were compelled to have one goal on the top of a hill, and to be continually on the guard against breaking the windows of the society building, on the one hand, and against infringing on the grounds of the tennis and cricket men, on the other. Added to these restrictions is the extreme liability of the ball...
...converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here the elevator ends and the misery from coal-gas begins. After climbing an almost perpendicular ladder for about thirty feet through the "top-loft," we pass through the last of the many trap-doors and stand upon the summit of "our boarding house." Although it was raining at the time of our visit, yet the "view" made us wish to camp up there for a week and live on the scenery...
Below is a petition sent to the faculty in 1902 by Miss Winnie Verdantique. It is written - the petition, not Miss Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms...
...Butterfield had some such idea of Cambridge as Verdant Green had of Oxford, and he was somewhat surprised at the reality. Going out on the street-cars in the afternoon he was first of all perplexed by the vocabulary of two gentlemen in top hats and very pointed shoes, who sat near him. The conversation was as follows: "What are you going to grind up for Stubby?" Butterfield pricked up his ears at this, expecting to hear some sage advice as to the proper food for a young dog. "Oh, I shall give him chum's note-book and something...
Ascending the main staircase, we come to three professors' rooms on the first landing. These are placed in a Mezzanine story and are similar to those immediately below. At the top of the main stairway, on the second floor, is the large reading room, 63 by 70. This occupies the part of the second floor on the north side, over the large lecture room. Here are all the facilities for reading in quiet and consulting the large number of books which the law student finds to be necessary. Fifteen large tables, each one 15 feet long by 3 1/2 feet...