Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second lot of Von Sybel's Kleine Historische Schriften is ready. Also Dobson's Eighteenth Century Essays. Taine's Ancient Regime and Creighton's Age of Elizabeth. The society will not keep Soule Photograph Co.'s photographs in stock after the present stock has been disposed of. The stock on hand has been reduced to close out. The best boxing gloves at $6.00 per pair; commonly retailed at $7.00 per pair. Thermometers in stock at 10 cents each...
...Robinson: Mr. President, the State of Massachusetts delights to join in the celebration of this festival occasion, which marks a great anniversary in the life and career of our ancient university. Our dear alma mater and our honored and progressive Commonwealth, have come down the centuries together, intimately allied for the advancement of sound learning, for a larger liberty, for a more intimate and patriotic citizenship, for a sympathetic support of the movements to improve the condition and welfare of our people, and to make universal the blessings of civil and religious freedom. To-day Massachusetts and Harvard university, receiving...
...used "unless permitted by the President with the consent of parents and guardians and on good reason first given by a physician"? Or can any one conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, grain, oxen, cows, sheep," or even boots and shoes in the clean pages of his account book...
...this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre of the dray, was seated our statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon...
...maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male...