Word: bred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sale) English bull terrier 5 months old, bred from Pepper and Topsey. Can be seen at Foster's Cigar store...
...uncommon nuisance, which has been commented on by both instructors and students, is the exceedingly ill-bred habit which many men have of whistling in the entries of Sever Hall during recitation time. Many classes are dismissed before the rest disperse, and men who have other recitations in Sever the next hour wander up and down the sounding corridors, whiling away the time by whistling and talking. This is not only a piece of great ill-breeding, but it is a nuisance to both instructors and students; it is impossible for the former to lecture, or the latter to listen...
...this article deserves all the scorn which our correspondent heaps on his head, but nevertheless, a fellow of his stamp may do incalculable harm if he is only persevering enough, and can find an audience for his productions. Unfortunately this audience is large and constant; colleges and college-bred men are always subjects of ridicule in a country where the majority of the inhabitants have for years been accustomed to look upon "self-made" men and home made educations and cultured men as superfluous things. The newspaper that appeals to the largest and most ignorant audience is sure to fill...
...sour and cross as she grows old. She is the same kind, generous mother she always was, only more so, and to the extent of her ability and her purse, she does all she can for her boys. We also wish to certify, hereby, that these boys are well bred and polite, and what is the best additional quality, they are afraid of no one. If family jars ever occur, or if Johnny does something the older boys would not have done, we all know the old adage about the best regulated families. Mother Harvard is the best of women...
...course of conduct prevails. Harvard College has not had a professor of oratory for three generations, and this too despite the fact that again and again its graduates and friends have urged it to change its ways and condescend to teach its graduates how to address, in a well-bred yet forcible way, a primary or a town meeting. The only instruction to-day in oratory in that college where its other professors have creditable salaries, is given by a young man called to the inferior office of an instructor on a salary less than that paid to an ordinary...