Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit sooner or later to be adopted by all true Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...
Those who wish to go to the Danvers Insane Asylum today will meet at the Boston and Maine station at 10.45 a. m. Tickets may be bought for Asylum Station. It will probably be impossible to return until late in the afternoon...
...special attention. One is by ex-President White on "The New Germany," and the other is Mr. Sanborn's course on "Social Science." Students in the latter course accompany Mr. Sanborn every Saturday on an excursion to some charitable or reformatory institution in the neighborhood. The Elmira Reformatory, Willard Asylum, and the Auburn Penitentiary are among the places visited by the class...
...been sent abroad through the public prints, I think I may properly ask you kindly to publish this short statement: The unfortunate man in question has been examined by physicians of the highest reputation, who unhesitatingly pronounce him insane, and on their certificate has been regularly committed to an asylum...
...plea that the articles taken are comparatively valueless and will serve the purpose of ornaments in students rooms, more perfectly than in the gymnasium. In plain Anglo Saxon, however, a student who is guilty of this practice, is either a kleptomaniac, and deserves a term in the insane asylum, or a thief, and should be made to feel the hand of the common law. Desirous as we are for subjects for editorials, we can but blush for Harvard when we have to refer again and again to these questionable operations, first in the library, again in Memorial, and again...