Word: screens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time or forever condemns him to oblivion. If Mr. Jones had but little joy in his life we can but grieve for him. It will not lighten his pain, now that he is dead, if his volume be thumbed ever so eagerly. But Mr. Perry makes no attempt to screen his new god's defects, and in the end he leaves us to judge if after all it be not a real...
...fair to say that the visiting team were handicapped by lack of practice at clay birds, as it is their custom to shoot live pidgeons. They have also been practicing at open traps, and were considerably bothered by the screen used on the Harvard grounds...
...Yale men claim that the chief reason they have held aloof from joining the proposed league between Harvard, Princeton and Yale is based on the fear that if a dispute should arise, Princeton and Harvard would combine against Yale. This is merely a protest to screen themselves for their backwardness in uniting with Harvard and Princeton as they know well enough that everything passed by the league has to be done so unanimously...
Appleton Chapel is now being thoroughly renovated; the platform has been extended a little and the first row of benches has been removed. An entirely new pulpit has been put in, and a handsomely painted screen is behind...
...short;" and as usual there were left in Cambridge during the last recess one or two men to guard each entry of the dormitories in the absence of the proctors, and in all, seventy-five or a hundred to form quite an active colony around the wooden screen in the Memorial dining-hall. These were the men who moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing to their rooms with a feeling, the whole burden...