Word: fed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon the altar. At the mention of the first fate the goat trembled visibly and desired rather any other doom, and he preferred death to Harvard. Then the executioner fell upon him savagely with a heavy baton. He was beaten to death, and being disemboweled, was found to have fed himself on "pony leaves" like any other student. Then the body was cast upon the funeral pyre and cremated, while the victors sang an exultant song...
...been in this city with regard to the work of Harvard men in education here. When a small group of the younger men have established in this city good preparatory schools, they redound to the credit not only of Harvard, but of every other college which is fed by them. And when we establish in Cambridge a true American university, when by your loving help that shall be at last created, for our children, if not for ourselves, you will have rendered a service not only to the institution we all love, but to all other institutions which...
...existence. A trip, made even in a Cambridge horse-car, will be well rewarded by a view of the window through whose mellow tints the sunlight filters into the great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows a perfect feast of colors and harmony. Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent...
...post. It was not exactly his fault, for he figured it up that were he fined every day, with eighteen dollars a month wages, he would have three dollars, which would take off all the profits. This should be remedied, for it is bad enough to be ill-fed when a person is able to be out and about, but when confined to one's room it is more than disagreeable...
...House war claims committee agreed yesterday to the bill to pay Mrs. Farr of New York, who fed Union soldiers in New York city during...