Word: distant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Barriers in the shape of prejudice and custom delay us; still our progress is steady. On calling his roll, the other day, an instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes that the time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely, and Juniors and Sophomores, as well as Seniors, would no longer be obliged to attend lectures or recitations by threats of punishment for their absence. We would all be raised, that is, from the condition of eye-servants to the state...
...long as our guests are confined to the friends of the students, there seems to be no real objection to their coming to look at us from the distant gallery, even though they may see fit to use an opera-glass; but, unfortunately, the strangers out-number the friends, and far too large a number of objectionable characters find their way into the Hall...
...Love in distant dream-lands...
...library is supposed to have penetrated to a beam beneath the hearth. In the middle of a very tempestuous night, that of January 24, 1764, the fire broke out, and as it was vacation, and but two or three persons were left in that part of Massachusetts. Hall most distant from Harvard, the flames when discovered were beyond control. Massachusetts, Stoughton, and the then new Hollis were all in great danger; but the town engine came, "the gentlemen of the General Court, among them his Excellency the Governor, were very active," and the fire was confined to Harvard. But that...
...From distant islets floating on the Southern...