Word: courtyard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kind patronage of the celebration, and to the Pope, who honored the occasion by several valuable gifts to the scientific department. In the evening the alumni and guests repaired to the Castle, which was all aflame with light and splendor. The old drawbridge was a bower of evergreens; the courtyard was as gay as flowers and banners and bands and electric lights could make it. Passing through the low-arched passage that leads to the promenade, we come upon a scene of revelry which we shall not soon forget. The altan is covered with tables and chairs; and busy waiters...
...superintendence of the older members. The separate universities split again into closer economic unions, under the name of "Nations," "Bursaries," "Colleges," whose older members, the seniors, governed the common affairs of each such union, and also met together for regulating the common affairs of the university. In the courtyard of the University of Bologna are still to be seen the coats-of-arms, and lists of members and seniors, of many such nations in ancient times. The older graduated members were regarded as permanent life members of such unions, and they retained the right of voting, as is still...
...said that if his hopes and his programme were only adhered to, France would in a few years' time be able to point with pride to a race of active and manly youths, somewhat different in physique and appearance from the pallid boys who loiter about a small courtyard, or walk in procession through the streets on half-holidays...