Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...makes little difference what profession a man takes, as long as he is not a round egg in a square hole. Be the man who, when he is told to do a thing, goes and does it. Have temperance, perseverance, self-control. Remember Horace's "Ne cede malis," and Holmes' verses beginning "Stick to your...
...ready way of arriving at an estimate, but perhaps he was not far wrong in the result. In this connection I may speak of another college dignitary who used to invite the men to breakfast. He only invited one at a time, and the breakfast invariably consisted of an egg and a chop. "Now, Mr. Jones," he would say, "suppose you take the egg and I'll take the chop ; or do you take the chop and I will take the egg." The immense breakfast feeds of the university, which required a good deal of fluid to wash them down...
...Times, thus agonizes over the recent Princeton-Wesleyan match: The contestants formed in lines on their respective sider of the grounds. Then a stout Princeton man stepped out and spent several minutes in finding a place to put the ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed...
...prove that they were constructed long before the discovery of this continent. In the centre of several of the mounds were altars composed of alternate layers of clay, sand, stones and ashes, no cement being used with the stones, which varied from the size of a hen's egg to several dounds in weight. The tops of the altars were concave and filled with fine sand, a portion of the burnt clay having been evidently removed. Judging from the solidity of the structures fires must have been kept burning in them for long periods of time. In these mounds were...
...would be willing to have her do so here, and you can rest assured you will never see her anywhere else. In short, all you have to do is to put any mark of individuality in the background, allow them to swallow you up in their own enthusiastic conceits, egg them on to do the same, and you will gain friendships in proportion only to the raw literary material that will be showered upon you by tomorrow's mail. And now let me introduce you to Mrs. De Sorosis and Dieu te garde, while I continue my psychological investigations...