Word: feed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close of the article Dr. McCosh draws a comparison between the American philosophy desired and the power of our agricultural products to feed the nations of Europe, saying that soon those countries will come to us for a philosophy as they now do for our produce. This is a "consummation devoutly to be wished," but which we can never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate...
...That "Feed for Horses" could...
...burning, the nightwatchman appeared on the scene with buckets of water and nearly extinguished the fire. but eighty-eight, nothing daunted, poured on kerosene, and, when the watchman returned to the basement of University to fill his buckets, locked him in. Masters of the field, they now began to feed the fire with barrels, stuffed with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails, and in fact anything they could lay their hands on. The fool-hardiness of some who poured on kerosene from tin cans, which...
...gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term! And what's this? 'Board at Harvard Dining Association,' $54,-well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck to the regular feed I couldn't have eaten all those extras, so it seems to me they ought to wipe off either the "board" or the "extra" items. And here, may it please the Olympian Tens, is the last one of all,-the last straw, too. 'Gymnasium Locker,' $2. Now considering the fact that...
...size of the classes, and partly because of the so-called Harvard indifference, but anything that will tend to increase this feeling and bind the members of a class more closely together, ought to receive a hearty support. Judging from the success which attended the '85 sophomore dinner, we feed sure that if the arrangements were placed in the hands of an energetic committee, there would be no doubt as to the success of a junior class dinner...