Word: van
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preparations began to be made to welcome the victors back to college. At 8.30 the brass band in a barge, and several teams left Cambridge for Boston to meet the nine at the Albany station. At 10.30 the train arrived, and a procession was at once formed. In the van was a large barge, from which colored firs were burned. Next followed the band barge and then came the nine in the band barge and than came the nine in another large team. Several herdics, carriages and branches brought up the rear. Out over Beacon street they made their...
...school was opened on Oct. 2nd, 1882, at Athens. The first director, it will be remembered, was Prof. W. W. Goodwin, and the present director is Prof. Packard of Yale, who will be succeeded by Prof. Van Benschoten of Wesleyan, for the year 1884-85. During the last year the committee in whose hands lies the management of this school has been changed by the addition of Prof. D'Ooge, of the University of Michigan, and by the resignation of Prof. Gurney of Harvard, who was one of the prime starters in the establishment of the school...
Rumor has it that the junior crew will be found in the van...
...number of "Scribner's Monthly" is a most interesting article on Recent Architecture in America, by Mrs. Van Rensselaer; and among the comparatively few public buildings praised and held up for imitation Harvard College has the honor of owning three, the Medical School, Sever Hall, and Austin Hall, the new Law School building. It is the belief of the authoress that these buildings are not to be praised so much for any peculiarity or eccentricity of style, nor yet for any particular beauty, but for the quiet and harmonious designs of the whole, and she maintains that the buildings look...
Among the contributors to the May Century, we find Julian Hawthorne, Henry James, Charles Waldstein, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, John Burroughs, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Philip Bourke Marston, George W. Cable, Robert Grant, Austin Dobson, H. H., Frank Stockton, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Andrew Lang, and R. W. Gilder. The mere mention of these names is sufficient to show the interest of the number. Henry James' new sketch is certainly an international one, if its situation in London and its reference to almost every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like...