Word: ornamentation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...particular, we further refer to the reproductions of the "National-Galerie" as of a very fine and magnificent ornament for the room. These pictures, published by the direction of the "National Galerie," are colored and of a middle great size; they exist both unframed (for rolling up) and also framed in a very splendid manner...
...other honors, which one is not likely to get if he holds aloof now. And to finish with an unimportant, but very practical consideration, many of the organizations that we have mentioned as open to freshmen, give their members a "shingle," so-called, which makes a most appropriate ornament for a college room...
...library of the college is, perhaps, its greatest ornament. Fited up in a style that puts to the blush our simple Gore Hall, it possesses, that which is more to the purpose, a most excellent collection of books. Wellesley has a very practical way of acquainting its students with the news of the day, and one which would not come amiss in many older places of learning. Besides a reading room open to all, where the prominent papers are kept on file every morning, an abstract of the news of preceding day is written on a large black-board...
...seem as if any other college would dare follow his lead. The papers continued to come out in their sober coats of black and white. A simple heading of large type, in most cases, followed by an unattractive and disorderly column of hatters' and clothiers' advertisements formed the sole ornament of the front page. Now much of this is changed and we have a new order of things. Decorated covers are the rule rather than the exception among the papers of the leading colleges. This change has taken place quite suddenly and is still going on. Three years...
...connected in marriage with the famous Mathers, by one of whom the chair is said to have been brought from England. It is triangular in shape and resembles many chairs found in the pleasant cottages of Herefordshire at the beginning of the last century. The wooden knobs which ornament the back were turned by President Holyoke himself. Now it is only used on Commencement Day, when the President as the head of the whole university, sits in it. During the remainder of the year it passes a dignified and quiet existence in the President's office...