Word: auburn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...orator, Miss Margaret Tippet, a lady whose massive brow was partly shaded by a halo of auburn curls, and who wore a dark gray polonaise trimmed with Valenciennes lace was loudly applauded on rising to deliver her oration. As this was in Greek, we have tried to translate it as literally as possible, although feeling how incompetent we are to reproduce the sparkling freshness of the original. The speaker began by alluding to the many victories which the class of '79 had won. "When we first entered these classic porticos," (she said), "it had been the custom...
...whom dost bind thine auburn hair...
Holworthy Club. - Holworthy, Hollis, Stoughton, and from the north side of Harvard Street to the north side of Mt. Auburn Street, inclusive, and from Brattle Square to Harvard Square...
Matthews Club. - Matthews, Grays, College House, the south side of Brattle Street, from Brattle Square to Harvard Square, and from the south side of Mt. Auburn Street to Holyoke Street...
...trains from Auburn brought large numbers of spectators, who sat for hours and endured the intense heat of the sun most good-naturedly; most of them laboring under the delusion that "the great intercollegiate boat-race," as the hand-bills called it, was to decide the respective merits of Harvard's and Cornell's rowing. As most of them sympathized with the latter college, they doubtless went away entirely satisfied...