Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never tasted the pleasures of vice, who perhaps does not know that such pleasures exist, or he who, knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality, the former is the better man, there hangs around him an air of immaculate purity, wings might become him. But is not the latter really morally higher; does he not have more of sturdy manliness...
...night is spent in merry toasts and numberless bottles of champagne. Herein the German student shows how superior is his mind to that of our college man who sits up all night with nothing to cheer him but a cup of cold coffee and a wet cloth around his aching head. Arrayed in dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read his thesis. Suddenly one of his friends will jump...
...accord with their honest religious views. Leaving this idea out of the question, daily public prayers might do great good to many. Under right conditions such a service may raise our standard of thinking and living. It may be made to turn our thoughts, from the almost unavoidable sordidness around us, to the higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship...
...there is around us, and in all our lives stuff enough to make good stories. And if there is not this material, we can never do much with what we borrow. A fellow need not necessarily confine himself to Adirondack deer hunts and the like; but almost any ordinary series of events may be idealized into something worth printing. We must take out of the mass of ephemeral, and comparatively insignificant happenings, the things lasting and significant. In other words, we must put into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures...
...candidates for throwing the hammer, putting the shot, tug of-war, etc., were represented only by Gibson, '88, who for this time exercised in the class of runners, jumpers, and the light-weight generally. The third class is termed the walkers, who spent some time yesterday in walking around the track in the gymnasium. Bemis, '87, Wright, '86, and Lord, '88, make up this class. The class which includes the runners is by far the largest. For short distance running, Smith, '86, Lander, '86, L. Thayer, '88, Rogers, '86, Stanton, '87. For the long runs, Dana, '88, Bruner...