Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the young aspirant for a college course has to encounter-and the number is by no means a small one-none can be said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done...
...opens his " New Portfolio," which is very entertaining. Beside the three serials, there are several papers which are of value to thoughtful readers. The chief of these is a sketch by Clara Barnes Martin, called " The Mother of Turgeneff," which gives a curious account of the early influences which surround the great novelist, and a striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge...
...second visit to a college like that at Wellesley is of far more interest than a first. Now accustomed to the well bred and lady like notice taken of us by the fair undergraduates, we can appreciate to better advantage our fair surroundings. After a highly interesting walk about the grounds we enter the main building and at once find ourselves in an interior that is luxurious to one who is accustomed to the hard benches and plain walls of Harvard. We enter the Browning room. There is an Amherst man over there. We stare at him. He becomes confused...
Long before the clocks of the many churches which surround the college yard had struck the hour of three a throng of professors, students and civilians began to crowd through the doors and fill up the seats of Saunder's Theatre. Many ladies also were present, among whom the thoughtful faces of our Annex maidens might easily be perceived, who had come forth from that sole remnant of antiquity which Cambridge can boast of-the Appian Way-to aid in applauding the unveiling of the new statue of John Harvard, the founder. Punctually at three o'clock the stage...
...grounds to watch the play The grounds consist of a well cut level field about 150 yards long and 75 yards wide. On the right hand side, as you enter, about half way towards the farther goal, there is a small house devoted to dressing-rooms. Very few trees surround the grounds, and in consequence the light is good. The costumes of the players are picturesesque, each one wearing a crimson jersey with a large H on the front, and a small crimson "polo" cap. Yesterday the club was out in full force. At the beginning of the game there...