Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...start on the season's practice. If they continue in the faithful work which they have undertaken we will send out an eleven this fall which Harvard will be glad to encourage and support. Let no one overlook anything which can aid them in this work and help to crown their final efforts with success...
...crown the night...
...English or Scotch universities are denominational; none have now (since 1871) religious tests, except that the established church in both England and Scotland has possession of the theological faculties. English universities are self-governed, except London and Manchester, which are controlled respectively by a senate (named by the Crown) and by a board of trustees. The constitutions of Oxford and Cambridge are very complicated and are understood by nobody outside the universities and by few inside. Ancient usage, modern acts of parliament, and their own legislation have all gone to the making of them. These university governments have two modern...
Oscar Wilde lectured in New York last night to a large and fashionable audience at Chickering Hall. He was dressed in a black dress coat, white vest, an extremely low cut shirt, with flowing white silk cravat, black knee breeches, crown stockings and slippers. He chose as his subject "The English Renaissance," which he said was the work of the aesthetes. In conclusion he said: "You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the aesthete's heart, the rose and the lily. But we do not love them for the reason given by Mr. Gilbert...
...crown is foe to people: both...