Word: door
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with its true, natural unforced sentiment, with its unborrowed thought, and if Harvard can show any productions excelling these in average she will do well. 'Imagination killed a man,' and we fear that Harvard has a great deal of this quality (i. e., not poetic imagination). As our next door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good an opinion of herself. Harvard, Yale and Princeton so frequently announce that they cannot be beat that...
Michael Davitt recently lectured before the students of Oxford. He was obliged to remain in one of the college buildings over night and in the morning found his door screwed up. He was compelled to make his exit through a window, letting himself down by sheets tied together...
...benefit of freshman who may wish to see the crews upon the water, it should be said that the usual means of obtaining admission to the boathouse is to kick vigorously upon the door until some one sees fit to open...
...five years, after a man enters railroading, he will be as far advanced as though he had entered a learned profession, provided he is equally devoted, industrious, abstinent and tenacious. Of the five departments, all of which lead to the top, the construction department gives a man an out-door life, the legal, on the whole is, perhaps, most congenial to the college-bred...
...number of the college and law-school men of Columbia College, have obtained the Fourteenth Regiment Armory, for the purpose of securing practice in tennis before the opening of the out-of-door clubs...