Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...change is needed in the time and place for the delivery of the ivy oration. I think it should immediately precede or succeed the exercises about the tree. If raised seats surround the tree, the orator, standing on a platform in the centre, will be able both to see his audience and to make them hear him. Inasmuch as the ivy will probably never take root, it might as well be planted under the tree as behind Gore Hall...
...Half assenting, she turned to her friend, who looked so haughty and reserved that the girl, with a checked look again coming over her face, only said, with thanks, that she would not trouble me. So I went away, and sat down on the edge of the platform...
...poetical inspiration seized me when standing on the platform of the sleeping-car last night. The practical and material conceptions were suggested in the coal-closet. I came back here only to find the fire out, and while I was trying to shake out the ashes I heard your step. I thought I would let you finish the job, and therefore jumped into the coal-hole. Much obliged to you for this cheerful blaze, by the by. Can I do anything for you ?" "Yes," said I, "you have a prior right to the management of this fire, so suppose...
...hall will be as usual, but at the grove the class prophecy and the prophecy on the prophet will be substituted for the customary oration, and the squabble between Sophomores and Freshmen will be omitted. The promenade concert will be held on the campus Wednesday evening. A platform will be erected, and the grounds and buildings illuminated with Japanese lanterns...
...lower end, on which the grand stand would be erected. From the stand the whole course could be seen; and, moreover, on one side of the river for the entire distance there is a carriage-road, and on the other a railroad on which a train of platform cars would be run, during the race, abreast of the boats and in full view of them, except for a few hundred feet where the road passes through a short cut. There is, also, ample opportunity for large steamers to follow the race, and a seaport like New London will be able...