Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more people go to see the Association matches. In championship matches for the challenge cup I. have seen 15,000 people on the field. Ten thousand is an ordinary crowd. They only charge six-pence (12 cents) to see the game, and a shilling (your quarter) for the pavilion. Of course, here we would have to make it a shilling admission, and two for the pavilion. How many times do we play a week? Generally twice, on Saturday and Monday, and I can tell you, two good matches in a week are quite enough for a player. The best ones...
...closing words were as follows: I am the only survivor of those who made speeches in the great pavilion, which resounded for three or four hours with the eloquence of Quincy and Everett and Shaw and Story and Saltonstall and Sprague and Daniel Webster, [applause] whose presence alone was enough to give dignity and grandeur to any occasion. Nor must I omit to allude to the fact that among those speakers was that accomplished and eminent scholar and orator, Hugh Wesley Green, who, only six years later died at the home of his friend, George Pickering, of Boston, having visited...
...centre, and thus formed a foundation for the scaffolding of the story above, and so on in succession to the top. The pillars were wreathed with evergreens and flowers, and pendants or streamers, of blue and white, radiated from the centre to the sides of the tent. The pavilion was erected on sloping ground, and the tables rose one above another in the form of an amphitheatre. On the lowest sides of the area, tables were placed on an elevated platform, for the President and Vice-Presidents of the day, and the eldest and most distinguished of the Alumni...
...morning of the 8th of September, 1836, a white banner, on which the device of the first seal of the University was emblazoned, was raised on the summit of the pavilion. At an early hour all the avenues leading from the city of Boston and its environs to Cambridge were thronged; and by nine o'clock the Alumni and invited guests, to the number of more than fifteen hundred, assembled in University Hall...
...front of the College edifices. By this arrangement, the graduates of the various classes passed in review before each other. After passing Dane Hall, the procession turned to the left, proceeded through Harvard street, in front of the President's house, and entered the College grounds opposite the pavilion...