Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...
...quenched in gloom and disappear...
...dusty volumes in the sultry Cambridge heat. They are very mysterious about their work, and never acknowledge the faintest intentions of writing a Bowdoin dissertation; but they always inquire eagerly, "Are many going to write this year, and who do you think the examiners will be?" In midsummer they disappear, bury themselves in some hole for the rest of the vacation, and bring back in September a pile of drearily learned manuscript, the result of the summer's grind...
...attend every entrance examination. It would remove the feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become...
YALE AND HARVARD.The race was to start at 10.15. At 10.10 both crews were seen to disappear into their respective boat-houses; presently both came out, stripped to the waist, and the two shells were put into the water at the same time. The Harvards were the first to leave their float, the Yales instantly following, and immediately both crews pulled down to the start. The Harvards were more evenly matched than their opponents, who taper off towards the bow. The southerly wind had by this time freshened up, and the water below the bridges was decidedly lumpy...