Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent this morning complains that the Princeton men were compelled to stay out in the cold during the intermission in Saturday's game while the Harvard Club enjoyed the shelter of the Pudding building. We believe that this was optional on their part, as Wesleyan in the game of November 5 retired from the field during the intermission, and Princeton must have been accorded similar hospitality...
...November Magazine of American History is one of the brightest and most richly illustrated issues of the year. Oliver Cromwell's portralt appears as its frontispiece, incident to the romantic story of the first settlement of Shelter Island, in 1652, told by Mrs Lamb in her happiest vein, entitled the "Historic Home of the Sylvesters." The paper is informing on a multitude of hitherto obscure points in early American history, and is delightfully diversified with incidents. Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D., contributes a second paper on the "Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch...
...this time rowing had a firm footing here, and a boat was built solely for purposes of speed. She was named the "Harvard," and was of the design known as "lapstreak." To shelter her a boat-house was built. Hitherto the boat had been kept in old sheds or moored on the river...
...color of the ink in which the design is printed. Though the arrangement and prominence given to the different societies might have been a little more judicious from an artistic point of view, the cover is a great improvement on its previous and will be a fit one to shelter all the valuable information contained in this little volume...
Birds, insects and snails, he continued, do not work gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends...