Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which compels them to go to the desk to receive and return all books used in the building. It certainly is provoking to see the boy carry by you the book you have sent for, and to follow him to the desk, in order simply to bring the book back again. The object of the regulation is to prevent persons from carrying away books not charged. This object, however, is gained by the return of books to the desk; and therefore the first part of the regulation is not only troublesome but needless...
Many of us have seen those round pieces of card-board, bearing on the obverse the illuminated motto, "Scratch my Back," and on the reverse a piece of sandpaper. We have often seen them, and have often made unsuccessful attempts to light matches on them; but I venture to say that it never occurred to the venerable Alumni when they reared Memorial Hall that the tablets and the carved wood-work would ever be used for a "scratch-my-back...
...students, and be one of the family'; but I do think she might treat these fellows as kindly as, for instance, you'd like to have your family treated if you should move into a strange place. Now when that polite young man brought my daughter's skate back to her, I 'd like to have had the girls a little more friendly to him. It would have been pleasanter for him, and I think they 'd have enjoyed...
Then I walked slowly back to College, wondering which was right, and thinking of the dear ones at home, and of the happy Christmas we 'd had, and of the happy days to come. "After all," thought I, "we are here to work, not to play; and when the work is over, we have, thank God, our own homes to play...
...most natural thing in the world. It is worth rowing a couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength in one stroke than the old men do in ten. To row well, as to do well anything worth doing, requires long, faithful practice. If our readers don't believe it, let them go down to the boat-house...