Word: butter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WHIPPLE.Will the following men please be at Sander's Theatre to-night at 7.15 sharp to usher at the Glee Club-Pierian concert. From '87: Ayer, Alexander, Brengle, Buck, Clark, Cox, Endicott, Fiske. Johnson, Higginson, Loud, Mumford, Wetherbee, Wiestling, de Gersdorff. From '88: Amory, Appleton, Butter, Brown, Hale, Porter, Sedgwick, Snow, Spaulding, Winslow...
Professor L. B. Arnold of Rochester has arrived and will deliver his lectures on butter and cheese making, this week and next. - Cornell...
...given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being the commodities offered in exchange for education...
...physician"? Or can any one conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, grain, oxen, cows, sheep," or even boots and shoes in the clean pages of his account book...
...student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required for practical purposes, that would go beyond the bread-and-butter studies. And to produce and foster such an ambition, it seems to me, is not by far so difficult as seems to be generally supposed. Let us imagine that we had a National Scientific Association, composed of the foremost scientists in the country, and that this association had a fund...