Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class at Exeter have presented the Academy with a beautiful stained glass window to be placed in the back of the chapel...
...suspending two editors of the "AEgis," an annual publication, for persisting in their refusal to give the name of the student who drew a cut for the paper in which the president figured, appears very hasty and inconsiderate. The cut in question was entitled, "Suggestions for a Chapel Window," representing the death of Ananis, with two young men carrying the body. Under the design was "1817," the year of President Bartlett's birth, "Rev. - -, D. D., LL. D." At the present stage of college tolerance, it is surprising that a bit of college pleasantry cannot be viewed in any other...
...sophomore at Dartmouth, while in a fit of somnambulism, jumped out of a second-story window into the snow...
...sermon in Appleton Chapel last night was preached by Rev. F. G. Peabody on Dan. 6 chap. 10 verse, "His window being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem." "The way a man habitually faces is the great point of importance in the church, in the age and in everyone of us. Nearness will not bind, distance will not separate us except as our frontage, our landscape is alike or different. Everyone may look toward other far-off spiritual landscapes, although he have first to cut away from before his window the tangled vine of the perplexing world. Open your spiritual...
...year 1791, a student brought a pig into his room in Hollis. In those days the window-seats were merely long boxes with lids, used to store articles in. Said student having an antipathy to the proctor who roomed beneath, was accustomed to squeeze piggy's ears and make him squeal whenever said proctor was engaged in the study of the classics. The result would be a rush by the proctor for the student's rooms, where the student was to be found studying (?), peacefully seated on his window-seat. Piggy, in the mean time had been deposited beneath...