Word: bound
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instructors in regard to this matter. At other colleges it is different. At Amherst, at the beginning of the present college year, Dr. Hitchcock, the supervisor of the physical education of the students, caused to be circulated in the Freshman class a paper by which all who signed were bound to neither smoke nor drink. Such a proceeding here would seem absurd. Few would sign; those who did would be influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would not alone be absurd; it would...
...happy, homeward-bound student is whirled along towards his Christmas fireside, his mind filled with anticipations of Germans and New Year's calls, does he once think of the handful of his comrades whom circumstances of one sort or another keep behind in these loved but somewhat desolate halls? Does he imagine what anguish will be theirs when the music of the Janitor's matins fails to reach their ears, or how they will miss the cheery hum of their classmates' voices from early morn till morn again? I fear not. Such is the selfishness of the undergraduate mind...
...turn an honest penny by putting up at auction my old keepsakes and gifts. As well exchange my old dog for a nice new one, paying only three dollars for the bargain. As well give up all memory of the old times, if three dollars will substitute a neatly bound new one with such dainty white pages! Sell old hats indeed...
...great canoe, with snowy wings, came to our ice-bound strand...
...knowledge; for no education, however rich in book lore, is complete without a knowledge of the world; and where can it be better studied? From his lookout all is unfavorable, and humanity assumes a dimension in perfect keeping with the diminutive measure applied by his mind, cramped from being bound within itself. How much such a result is to be dreaded by any one whose professed object is the acquisition of a liberal education, need not further be indicated; for the narrow-mindedness which prevents one from taking an extended view of the necessary conditions of a successful life...