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...wish you would suggest to our landscape gardener that while there is yet time he should transplant the young creepers he has set out so profusely against the Law School to the gaunt and bare rear walls of Hastings, which have not been given any, the Physical Laboratory and Thayer Hall, which would look handsomer, the deeper its natural hideousness were hidden from sight. The Law School is one of the few Harvard buildings that can stand scrutiny; and to cover up its walls with vines, especially the fine carved shield on its eastern wing, while the ugly architecture...
...tier of seats recently erected on Holmes Field between the college hospital and the Hasty Pudding building will prove a considerable addition to the attractions of the field. While the style of architecture prevailing in the structure is not startlingly beautiful, yet, by contrast with the crazy, gaunt, old benches, it is rather refreshing to the eye. Moreover, the space between the two buildings is as effectually blocked as it would be if it were filled up with the fence which the authorities deny us, and thus the services of our policeman may be employed at some more exposed portion...
...admit, for the present volume certainly does not surpass the efforts of previous editors, and we note some rather prominent inaccuracies. One is apt to get rather an unfortunate first impression from the cover. Have you ever, in riding along some solitary country road, been confronted by two gaunt posts bearing a signboard with the ominous legend "Look out for the engine." Such is the general appearance of the cover of the Index. Two tropical palm trees support a sign, on which is prominently blazoned the title of the work. Beneath, we are regaled with a view taken from...
Jarvis Field has a gaunt and lonely appearance, now that the seats have been removed to Holmes...
Among the British coins are a number of tokens struck in honor of such dukes as Warwickshire, John of Gaunt, and Wellington. Also there are some silver tokens struck by large mercantile houses...