Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...position and surroundings of the proposed building. It is essential that a piece of architecture should harmonize with its surroundings as well in outline and form as in color. A house should not be placed in the centre of a small, square piece of ground, having an even border on all sides of it, but should be placed nearer the side of the lot, with the larger part on one side of the house. This will give much better light and will add materially to the artistic effect. The result produced by a neglect of this rule may be seen...
Geological Conference. Papers: Geology of Hough's Neck, Mr. T. W. Vaughan; The South-eastern Border of the Boston Basin, Mr. C. F. Marbut and Mr. J. Underhill; Methods of Mining in the Lake Superior Iron Region, Mr. J. R. Finlay. Geological Laboratory...
...published "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," a collection of ballads and traditions from which he drew much of the material for his later works. His first great poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," was published in 1805. This was very successful and at once raised Scott to prominence. For the next two years he was at work in writing a life of Dryden and in publishing an edition of his works. In 1808 appeared "Marmion." In this Scott is at his best, he has a truly romantic subject, and his wonderful faculty of invention is at its height...
...fiction of the number is good, beginning with an excellent piece of work entitled "Love Among Arms." It is an unusual story for a college magazine, the scene being on the Austrian border, and the plot, - for extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready...
...writer of the communication which we print in another column has touched on an important question, and one which the Class Day Committee is fortunately taking in hand. For a number of years past the exercises around the Tree on Class Day have been marred by spectacles which border closely on the disgraceful. The extent to which the struggles for the flowers have been carried may be well enough when there is no one in the question but men, but to the crowd of ladies who are gathered to watch the sport the sight cannot help becoming now and then...