Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...roof and numerous gables and bay windows add greatly to the beauty of the structure and cause it look like a block of houses. The effect of the whole from an artistic point of view is very picturesque, and is much more in harmony with the green lawns which surround the buildings on every side than the cold red of our other buildings...
...mean by "patriotism," however, the blinding of our eyes to the imperfections that surround us, but the exertion of whatever strength we may possess in attempting to improve as well as to serve the customs and institutions which are in vogue here in Cambridge. In this the CRIMSON will be eminently conservative, and will endeavor never to transcend the bounds of propriety which limit expression of opinion at college as well as elsewhere. We shall keep within the limits which custom has assigned to college papers. But when we have once espoused a cause, our duty in devoting...
...entirely unjustifiable; it is unjust because it imputes to a conscientious man (whose devotion to his work has more than once endangered his health), those errors and shortcomings for which others are in a large measure to be censured. It is unjust because it overlooks the difficulties which surround a man so situated; because it affirms as the opinion of the university that which is not the opinion of even a minority of its members. The communication is trenchant, but all trenchant remarks are two-edged, and when a personal opinion is made to masquerade as a statement of "things...
...Cambridge? Add to this the pathos of those memories and in truth to day would be the history of Harvard for half a century or more, if we could but have omniscience and overhear all the talk, interpret every look and expose all the passion of feeling which will surround us throughout...
...with the idea that the speaker will give his views on the law as a profession; that he will tell the student of the prospects a lawyer has, who is to-day launching out into the profession; that he will speak to him of the difficulties which at first surround the beginner and of the many disagreeable moments through which every new lawyer has to pass; finally the lecturer will enlighten him upon the ultimate chances of success. The student will also hear with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow of the man who has made his mark...