Word: crept
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eulogized, her proud achievements. Her departure has been signalized by few of those time-honored festivities which gladden the heart and weld in indissoluble bonds youthful friendships. We cannot blame her disunion; it was but the revolting of a noble soul against the contemptible electoral machinery which has latterly crept stealthily even into college politics. We grieve at her misfortune, but we rejoice at her nobleness. It is with feelings of the deepest sadness that we bid farewell to this class. We believe that she has exercised a better, stronger, more permanent influence over this College than any preceding class...
Perhaps, however, the "too" only crept in by accident, owing to a slip on the part of the Editors similar to that of the lady who was saved from drowning by "Providence and that other...
...early morning, and the sunbeams crept...
...Crept to silence and were...
...chance of reclamation for myself and my companions in distress, that I write this article. When the weed of indiscriminate charity becomes so vigorous as to crowd a decent fellow-sprig out of existence, the time were come, it would seem, for a little interference. So much humbug has crept into the charity of to-day, that "the greatest of these three" is at war with the chief purposes of a higher education...