Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from the stare of the world by the rough-clad sentinel mountain...
...room is pleasant and commodious, - capable of seating six hundred. Though attendance at services is not compulsory, to our surprise nearly all the students were present. The Faculty appear in a body upon the platform, and produce a much finer effect than the distribution of a select few in sentinel-boxes. The appearance of a score of ladies in the front seats strikes a visitor from a staid institution for males as somewhat peculiar. He soon begins to admire, however, and concludes that they are decidedly more ornamental than carved work or fresco. Singing is a pleasant feature...
...raise our feeble voice against the scheme, even were we so inclined. What can be more pleasant than to shake hands with the Williams Vidette and Amherst Student, to make the acquaintance of the fair editresses from Vassar and all the mixed colleges, to see the Hobart Sentinel and Cornell Era hobnobbing together, or the Miami Student and Southern Collegian burying the hatchet and swearing eternal peace! or, what must certainly happen, to see the funny "Spectrum Lines" and jocose "Particles" each roaring and splitting his sides with laughter at the witticisms of the other! To think of the friendships...