Word: dust
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These travels were begun in 1796, and as it is now 1876, President Dwight's eighty years are just completed, and the time has come to take down his ponderous volumes from the shelves, and after having brushed off the dust which has been accumulating for eight decades, to obtain a view of the country as it appeared at the end of the last century. Besides, this is the Centennial year, when people everywhere are looking up the records of the past. So let every New-Englander and New-Yorker, and every one who is interested in any New England...
Dress-suits are ruined as a general thing, either by the mud or the dust, and after having been, as in many cases, purchased for "that occasion only," prove useful only for the Poco or the faithful scout. Let us have caps and gowns by all means...
...subtle influence of deeds is far less easily overcome. There is, I grieve to say, a class of students at Harvard whose every act is a lie; and, hard as the duty is, it is the duty of every pure-minded man to hate them, to shake the dust of their rooms from his feet, and to use all his power to crush them out of existence...
...only worthy objection to the exercises around the tree is the dust and shouting raised by the rush of the lower classes, - the sole remaining sign at Harvard of the enmity which is proverbially connected with the name of Sophomores and Freshmen. Although the abolishing of hazing is not so universally considered an unmixed good among either alumni or undergraduates as the college papers have represented, still the fact that hazing and the kindred practice of rushing have become customs of the past would justify the Seniors, should they see fit, to forbid the rush of the Sophomores and Freshmen...
...look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which at the next dusting a large portion would descend to the carpet again...