Word: walls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Senior crew will have the inside course next to the wall, Junior's next, Freshmen's next and Sophomore's the outside course...
...order to give every man in college a good opportunity to see the Class Races next Friday afternoon, the 'Varsity Crew management, following the custom started last year, has decided to erect a grand stand along the stone wall opposite the finish of the race...
...preliminary drawing to determine the order in which the captains should draw, Ninety five got the first, Ninety-six, second, Ninety-four, third and Ninety-three, last. In the drawing for positions the order was reversed, and Ninety-three drew the inside course nearest the wall, Ninety four next, Ninety six next, and Ninety-five on the outside...
Cowper's life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave...
...place of a skull" Close at hand have been discovered the remains of an old Roman road leading directly to Herod's Tower in the city from which it could easily be seen. Moreover, just back of the hill stands a garden, and along its edge runs a wall, pretty well buried under the accumulated dust of ages. Excavations have brought to light a tomb in the wall, protected by a rolling stone, just such as the Bible suggests was there. The place has been left unharmed for centuries, because it is within the enclosure of a Mahometan grave-yard...