Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essays must be written upon letter paper, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. The sheets on which the essays are written must be securely stitched together...
...winter snow-storms it would be almost impossible for a fire-engine to traverse the yard in time to save a burning building. Our buildings are so constructed that there is always a powerful up-draft in each entry. Let a fire get under a good headway on the bottom floor and the entry will become a death-trap to those above. There is no escape except by jumping from the windows. Matthews has a fire ladder, but Thayer, the largest and highest building, has no means of escape, except the wooden fire ladders under the chapel, which...
...design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden in the will. The students, therefore, seem immature compared with those of New England universities. The principal building is fireproof; even the roof is built of slabs of marble. The stairs from bottom to top are self-supporting, without wood-work. This building is devoted wholly to the business of instruction, and the teachers are responsible for the good conduct of the pupils while under their care. When they pass from the recitation rooms they fall under the eye of an entirely different...
...demonstration of the Harvard students against Oscar Wilde at his Boston lecture is attributed to his "manager," who cunningly put them up to the trick without their knowing that he was at the bottom of it. The newspapers were also informed of the demonstration beforehand which insured a big audience. The game his manager will play to secure an audience in Detroit will probably not be known until after he has come and gone. He does not play the same one in any two places. - [Detroit Free Press...
...there is no doubt that the bribes which have also been paid to them to induce them to win are very large. The betting, at last advices, was even, but President Hanlon, of Harvard, confidently informed a leading citizen of Boston yesterday that he might safely put his bottom dollar on Harvard. - [Harper's Monthly...