Word: big
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter as the existence of four bulletin boards, more or less, would cause such great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes be of a bridge over our raging yard torrents - which we now must ford - of additional dormitories, of a better class of goodies...
...student. I observed a comment on this same suggestion in one of the Boston papers of to-day, which seems to touch the matter closely. Now that we are a full-fledged university with that larger and broader freedom which attends such station, it is wise to merit this big title by a character equally as big. Do the professors of Harvard wish to become intimate with its students, are they anxious to offer some more personal assistance than mere lecture room intercourse affords? Mr. Wendell says they are. And the student - is he agreed? Everybody knows this. There...
...under the elective system men are tempted to, and actually do, take a "soft" courses with the expectation of getting high marks, and so "freezing" on to a big fat scholarship. This has become so large an evil that the high scholars almost invariably shun very valuable but difficult courses, except as extras...
Then, because she had to punish some of her boys as all good mothers must, people made a big talk over it and said they were all badly brought up. Not content with all this, now within a few days they say that she shows favoritism in giving her boys pocket-money, that she doesn't give some of them enough to eat and that although she has plenty of money, she won't build an addition to the house, but allows the boys to be crowded out, to sleep in the shed or at the neighbor...
...last season, has signed with the St. Pauls for next year at $225 a month. He is a junior in the scientific department of Dartmouth College and a resident of Hanover, his father being janitor of some of the college halls. The family are in humble circumstances, and the big lift his skill as a twirler has given him this year, and will give him next, will enable him to graduate from college free from debt...