Word: abounds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposition to erect a statue of Milton at Harvard, which is made by a correspondent of the Boston Post, is all very fine in its way and it would be an addition to the objects of interest which abound here. It would, however, be better for people to erect statues of Harvard's own great men before seeking to make one of Milton.- Cambridge Tribune...
...Ingoldsby and His Legends" is an appreciative study of the writer of that remarkable book of tales. The writer points out with effect the main characteristics of Barham's poetry and of the general attitude of mind portrayed in it. These "legends" abound with some of the purest fun in the English language and it is extraordinary that they are comparatively so little known...
...following is the advice of the paper published by the Lawrenceville, N. J. School to the members of the foot-ball team: "Eating ice-cream and drinking soda water are especially to be avoided, in spite of the temptations which abound in the village, as they undoubtedly tend to make the wind short...
...surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone by in Cambridge; otherwise Pericles and Aspasia would take him out and hold him under a pump nozzle." - Boston Herald...
...meets an abuse which, during the last college year, has become especially noticeable. The men generally put down "anything" on their lists before they leave in the spring, and take their time up to the mid-year's to correct them. The result is that the roll-calls abound with men who never come near the courses, and the instructors are bored with a floating population of volatile individuals who have little idea what they want. The action of the faculty in this matter will meet the approval of all well-regulated students...