Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...university at the present, time owns about 650 acres of land; all of this immediately surround the building. The campus acreage under cultivation amounts to over 107 acres...
...been asked to give a dollar, but more or less will be gladly accepted by the collectors. There will be no collecting at the Senior polls, which is wise, but there will be a vigorous room-to-room canvass, and the "walking squad" will scour the Yard and surround the class rooms. No man will be missed; every man should give willingly. His "tag" will be a badge of pride, a symbol of at least one day's duty in regard to the war, accomplished in a practical manner...
...with her infirmary squad, but with the undergraduates, who are presumably in good condition enough to extend to the visitors and their retainers something of the same welcome which Vanderbilt received two years ago--a welcome that is talked about in Tennessee, and one that did more to surround the name of Harvard with a pleasant odor than any official action could ever...
...United States but even in many foreign countries, for Tuskegee has students enrolled from 36 states and 18 foreign countries, Mr. Washington turned to the consideration of a few of their problems. The negro, he thinks, is better suited to country life than he is to the conditions which surround him in the large cities, both southern and northern. For this reason, Tuskegee has always devoted itself especially to the training of farmers. At the commencement exercises, addresses are always given on practical problems which confront the negro population of the surrounding districts. But for the help of the better...
...fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands of our best portrait painters. But, whereas Napoleon never asked his dragoons to preserve "The Last Supper," members of Memorial have time and again been asked to respect the pictures that surround them. Damage has been done; that is known. The knowledge should be enough to put a quietus on further demonstrations of the fighting instinct...