Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...felt relieved. Smith went off, and I went at my forensic. I was just putting the final flourish to the thing, some hours later, when he came in with his editorials...
...athletics do not flourish at the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, it is needless to say that in the Index's opinion "one thing has contributed not a little to the spread of this college profanity, this immorality, this vice peculiar to college, and it is the encouragement given to sports, athletic and aquatic...
...various clubs and societies which at present flourish at Harvard require for their support an amount of money which, in the aggregate, reaches a very considerable sum. Several of the societies have so large expenses that the proper management of their funds requires a considerable degree of financial experience. It has been the custom from time immemorial to appoint to the office of treasurer some student whose life has, until that moment, been divided between study and play, and whose time is generally pretty thoroughly occupied without his financial duties. The result of this arrangement is that, although no instance...
...sorry to see that the personal and intensely local style which has so long characterized many of our Western exchanges has appeared nearer home. It is an exotic that ought not to flourish in Massachusetts...
...would be the voters of the town; and every ambitious Sophomore might air his rhetoric at the caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen to stirring addresses in Greek and Latin; and the venerable College would flourish, unrestrained by other rule than that of the body which first founded it, the "General Court of Massachusetts...