Word: medal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dear fellow," thought I, "if you continue to be as great an ass as you are now, your pictures will probably remain undecorated, unless you should go to France, and compete for the medal of which La Marjolaine got such a number; and even then, you might not succeed. Again, why have any pictures that don't 'amount to much'? Your wall-paper, which is not intolerably ugly, is better than a bad print." This is what I thought. I only said, "Though the Art Club does not generally admit Freshmen to its hilarious meetings, your room is evidence that...
SOME disappointed aspirant suggests that the Art Club medal consists of a silver palette because its members lack taste...
...MEDAL is to be substituted for the beer mug as the Glee Club Shingle. The medal of the active members will be of silver, that of associate members of bronze...
...Forest medal at Yale for the best oration was yesterday awarded to Louis Judson Swinburne, of Albany...
...spoiled what bid fair to be an exciting race between the two champions. This will probably be the last chance that Lee and Wendell will have to meet in the Intercollegiate Sports, as the former graduates from the University of Pennsylvania this spring. A match for a gold medal is talked about by the friends of both parties, the result of the race to depend on a single heat. It seems advisable, however, to some of Wendell's friends that the trial should be the best two in three heats, as Lee's incomparable way of starting might...