Word: redness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story of his persecution of St. Dunstan. He was constantly visitting the saint's blacksmith shop to make sinful suggestions and disturb the holy man's pious meditations. But one day, as the Devil poked his head in at the window, the doughty saint caught his diabolical nose in red hot pincers, and the Devil fled howling, to trouble the saint no more...
Parisian students created a serious riot at the funeral of Jules Valles, the revolutionist, last Friday. A delegation of German Socialists occupied a place in the funeral procession, bearing a wreath of violets, adorned with a red scarf, and hanging from a long pole. The emblem bore the inscription, " From the German Socialists of Paris." The students, who lined the boulevard, began a commotion with shouts of " Down with the Germans," mingled with the revolutionary cheering; and then a group of long-haired youths made a rush at the Tenton who was carrying the violet wreath. The onset was resisted...
...Mary founded it. The alterations in this college are many, but it still retains three old gateways called respectively those of Humility, of Virtue, and of Honor. Trinity Hall is the legal college, and is more celebrated for its gardens than its buildings. While the partisans of the red and the white roses, or rather of Lancaster and York, were busily engaged in the conflict that eventually put Lancaster upon the throne, they did not forget to found Queen's College as a monument for future generations. E Asmus was a fellow of this college. A peculiar bridge, the mathematical...
...find a record of the real student life of the college;-the rolls of the social clubs; the record of the university teams. Here the freshman proudly finds his name printed among the members of the Canoe Club, or Harvard Union, and promptly sends home a copy marked in red ink. It is but natural, then, that the appearance of this important work should be awaited with interest, and that, when it is issued, it should be carefully scrutinized and sharply criticised if found to fall below the standard of its predecessors. This year the students have been subjected...
...informed the trustees that it would be in accordance with the known wishes of that gentleman that his legacy of $50,000, when paid, should be used for the erection of a library building. The proposition was satisfactory to Mr. Rollins. The library is of brick and Longmeadow red stone, tasteful and convenient, and strictly fireproof, capable of holding 165,000 volumes. The college library now contains 65,000 volumes, well selected. It is surpassed by not more than three college libraries in this country, and is rapidly growing under the system of careful selection, and is undoubtedly the best...