Word: dust
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have it on good authority that the layer of dust on the seats in some of the examination rooms would require a new and vigorous broom in order to be removed...
...Hollis. This rivalry, sor, is a hilthy thing, We all takes a great deal 'o pains in what we does. Why, sor, I makes some 'o my rooms looks jest so sweet'nd pretty loike that yer wouldn't know' em, sor. I have a way o' leavin' the dust on things, sor, a purpose. Yer see, sor, I onct heard that a good painter always made his pictures look kind 'o dusty loike. That, sor, 's why I have the dust in some 'o my rooms, becus it makes 'em look loike rale nice paintings. Thin...
...Books were laid aside for the musket, familiarity of the classics war superseded by the knowledge of military tactics; the robe of the student was replaced by the uniform of the soldier. Academic honors lost their charm when the Union was in peril, and noble literary ambitions were as dust in the balance when the nation called for defenders. There were five hundred and thirty-five Harvard men among the volunteers of the North. Of these, three hundred and eighty-one were commissioned officers...
...reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the city government; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of Mr. John Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, living among us, to give the he one-half of his estate, it being...
...hand the accusation of superficiality and on the other the equally disagreeable taunt of being a specialist. We see one man, confident in the training afforded by the classics and the study of mathematics, elect these studies alone for his college course with the anticipation of emerging from the dust of the college furrow with a brain so beneficently trained and strengthened that it will unable him to grasp and claim for his own any subject to which he may turn his attention. Again, on the other hand, we observe exactly the opposite course pursued. We see a student endeavoring...