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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advertiser says the Newport Daily News must be bidding for subscriptions at Yale, as it announces that six deaths from yellow fever occurred at Harvard last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/21/1883 | See Source »

...recent Princeton-Wesleyan match: The contestants formed in lines on their respective sider of the grounds. Then a stout Princeton man stepped out and spent several minutes in finding a place to put the ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/10/1883 | See Source »

...staff is grasped in one hand, the other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background, and the Graeco-Roman details of the decorative panels above and below the figure, are the same in both halves of the window. In nothing else does the glass in which Virgil is portrayed resemble Homer, save in the fillet of bays which encircles the brows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW HARVARD WINDOW. | 10/19/1883 | See Source »

...north side of Holmes field at Harvard College is a little one-story yellow house which has often attracted attention, contrasting as it does so strongly with the large buildings which occupy the southern portion of the field. This little building is the college hospital, and, although small, it is yet perfect in all its arrangements. In 1874 the authorities felt the need of an institution of this sort in connection with the college, for twice in recent years the breaking out of a contagious disease had found the college unprepared for such an emergency. In the first of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE HOSPITAL. | 4/23/1883 | See Source »

...married, was given permission to use the hospital as a home, and did so use it. The other time was when Prof. Ko-Kun-Hua, the Chinese professor, who had unexpectedly arrived in Cambridge before arrangements for his accommodation had been made, was given the use of the little yellow building for himself and family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE HOSPITAL. | 4/23/1883 | See Source »

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