Word: halo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the foot-ball season has closed with such a halo of success to the freshman eleven, it behooves that the members of the team should turn their attention to rowing and do their best to put the crimson and white once more to the front at New London. The first championship has been gained by the freshmen over Yale, and with energy and perseverance there is no reason why '90 should not duplicate her foot-ball victory by gaining the base-ball championship and another later in the spring on the water. Especially should attention be given from...
...author of the 'Biglow Papers' and 'Under the Willows' and 'Among My Books.' Their candidate was the friend of Hawthorne, the successor to Long fellow's chair at Harvard; one of the leaders in the society which has invested Cambridge, in Massachusetts, with something of the halo of Weimar; the expert in English Literature who has redeemed the name of Fielding from unmerited reproaches...
...fire-escapes we would like to object once more to the use of Appleton Chapel as a refrigerator by the Dining Association. We do not believe the Chapel was endowed for that purpose; and, besides the unwarranted desecration, the present temperature of our devotions is apt to lend a halo of attractiveness to the future abode of the non-elect which defeats the ostensible purpose of the religious exercises...
During the fire on Saturday, one of the Harvard men who were especially active in rescuing stoves, potatoes and children, was seen to enter the side room of a house, put a dent in his hat, place his scarf awry, and then emerge with a halo of courage and self-abnegation playing about his features...
Perhaps, however, ??? means by support, pecuniary support. If this is all that is necessary to give Lacrosse the necessary halo in his eyes, the Lacrosse Association will, we are sure, be most happy to call upon him for a contribution. Hitherto they have always esteemed it the peculiar virtue of their Association that they were self-supporting...