Word: come
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...death of Mrs. Caroline Street, of New York, Yale comes into the possession of $250,000. The art buildings and art instruction in college come in for a part of the money; and a new professorship in the Theological School is to be founded...
...dressed young fellows, the usual inquiries and responses as to the manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior are seen in our midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard, and get all the possible good from the College; others who are simply content to get through, with the fraction of a per cent to spare; others, again, who have no aim at all, judging the future by the past. During...
...professors of this University, a fair illustration of the word that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and in this case I may say, if reports speak truly, the office had to knock several times at the door before it was bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor to the administration which made it, and will do honor to the country. I mean Professor Lowell...
...Senator Bayard said that the man who made the phrase 'Pleasures that come unlooked for are twice welcome,' was never called upon suddenly to make an after-dinner speech. His steps had been bent thither by invitation of one of the societies, before whom on the morrow he might perhaps say something in response to the heavy idea of the toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree...
...class of '52, to which he belonged," he said, "had come up to celebrate its quarter-century, and one thing had come to their knowledge they were proud of, and that was, that however little else they had done, they had produced one grandfather. In this department of usefulness they would report progress, and ask leave to sit again. Two or three points in the affairs of the College had attracted his attention. He had observed with increased solicitude the difficulty which presented itself to their juniors and sons for finding admission to the University, and especially the difficulty...