Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beneath the chains of mortal making...
...they look the matter sternly in the face they will perceive that there are disfiguring wrinkles that all the cosmetics of art cannot drive away. Human nature is human nature, and no human power can ever conquer it. It displays itself despite every effort to hide it beneath a flimsy veil that sentiment may weave. When the Golden Age again sheds its brightening beams upon mankind, when virtue again reigns supreme throughout the world, and when, what is most important, youth ceases to be youth and loses all the characteristics of impulsiveness and fire that make it youth, then perhaps...
...undergraduates from passing from one set of chambers to another. Even where there are no bars, there is some danger from mere height, coupled with the absence of a second staircase. In my Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire. If he had, for me, I knew, there...
...might be a great boon to the student. At Cambridge, England, in consequence of complaints, some of the fellows of colleges gave the commissariat their most careful personal supervision, and with excellent result. Harvard might take example. It is a subject which, as Frederick the Great proved, is not beneath any one's attention. - [N. Y. Times...
WILLIAMSTOWN, Feb. 8, 1882. "O tempora!" "O mores!" "How are the mighty fallen!" During the past week we have been informed that Williams is a reform school, and that to be connected with such an institution is beneath the dignity of our ex-president, the Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne. We had supposed that hostilities between the college and Mr. Chadbourne would cease on his withdrawal from office, but it seems, with characteristic spleen, he has chosen to revive the feud by writing to the press a letter slandering Williams in a most ungenerous manner. Great indignation is felt here among...