Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taste, you will find matters very different. If you have travelled, a couple of views of some well-remembered spot will carry you at once a thousand miles away. Before your cigarette is half finished you will find yourself wandering in fancy among the crumbling ruins of Italy, or beneath the battered castles of the robber-barons of the Rhine, or in the fading palaces of the Spanish Moors...
...proceeded so far as to have one half of a window completed and this was placed temporarily in the hall by the architects, in order that they might see the effect. But so insecure were the fastenings that the framework gave way and precipitated it into the gallery beneath injuring it so severely that it will probably be a long time before it can be repaired, and in consequence of this accident the work of beginning the other half of the window will be deferred for an indefinite period. The class of '57 started off bravely, but from various causes...
...memories of the past. It must be confessed that they are not calculated to remind one of home. The wood-work is rough and unpainted; the windows are dirty and dim; the walls are dingy and smoked. Yet the Harvard student counts it a privilege to stretch his limbs beneath their mossy roofs, and the older the building is the more valuable becomes his habitation. He cares not for the rickety stairs or unpainted walls; he gazes upon the traces of illustrious predecessors and is happy...
...life of most students, together with the neighborhood of a large city. But it is worth our while to notice that this is a mere surface-view, and is true for the most part only of the entering classes. It is equally patent that there is pretty vigorous-circulation beneath this careless exterior. One must be blind indeed if he do not find in general an eager embracing of the noble opportunities of the University, and activity of mind commensurate with the worth of the instruction. I think we might produce on occasion scholars in the various departments of study...
...Besides, though they are poor, they are proud, and would regard it as beneath the dignity of a free-born Vermonter to expose their muscle in public, like gladiators in the amphitheatre, for Mrs. Morrissey and other high-bred dames...