Word: bond
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sectarian theology. . . . That part of the community which regards Harvard College as a national institution . . . cannot but feel a deep regret at what they esteem the grave error of its eminent president in his endeavor to strengthen a sectarian school which is connected with the College by no necessary bond. So far as Harvard College has, or is supposed to have, a sectarian character, or even a sectarian bias, so far is its growth impeded, its proper work hindered, and its national influence diminished...
...Then there's Van Boozle, - stylish fellow, - Bellows of the Glee Club, Brush of the Art Club, Bond of the Finance Club, and the rest. I was thinking them over, as I lay on the grass, when some one slapped me on the shoulder, and, looking up, I saw that contemptible little Browser of our class, - the scrubby man with the pug nose...
...Then take thy bond! take thou thy pound of flesh...
Perhaps, however, this loosening of the bond is not to be deplored, for any respectable old mentor who should nowadays attempt to follow the vagaries of his young Telemachus would have a hard time...
...Bond...