Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...perhaps Mr. Bryce's words best sum up what we all feel and what these writers in different ways have fittingly expressed: "His clear and luminous intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround us. Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth...
...three days they did nothing but admire it and talk about the new era it had inaugurated in the life of the island. The fourth day they appointed a committee to care for the treasure. And thereupon the committee, after much consultation and three adjourned sessions, proceeded to surround it on all sides with a wall and a roof a foot thick. Since then the sundial has been preserved most admirably. As to its practical use, however, it has been much like a purely democratic club with a ten dollar annual membership...
...College House the University receives a large annual rent, and, consequently, there is a strong economic reason why the building ought not to be destroyed in order to afford a site for a club which will pay only a nominal rent. As to Wadsworth House,-- historical associations so surround it and the ground it is on, that a proposal to replace the old building with the new club would not be considered. Adjoining Wadsworth House on the east is ground which is as centrally located as any of the "impossible" sites that have been proposed. It is about equally distant...