Word: tree
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tree down. But in the course of the chopping a portion of the upper tree falls on his head with such extraordinary force as to compel his senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...have a proof sheet of the cover of the new Index before us, and it is gratifying to see that it is quite a departure from the time-honored, meaningless palm tree or some similar design. The medals or seals of the various college societies are placed in a rather artistic way here and there on the page. The Advocate's Pegasus and Lampy himself are there, and the CRIMSON is represented by the color of the ink in which the design is printed. Though the arrangement and prominence given to the different societies might have been a little more...
...aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency was a silhouette of a gentleman embracing a girl, with the two mottoes, "Inter...
...Seniors cheer college buildings. Exercises about the tree...
EDGAR J. RICH.Graduates can obtain yard tickets and tree checks from Mr. Jones this afternoon, in Harvard Hall, from 2 to 3 o'clock...