Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with red-hot coals. If I go out, and leave the window open to cool it off, I come back and find that my faithful servant has been in and shut it before me allowing the mercury to regain its former position, and from that lofty eminence it smiles blandly upon me as I enter...
YESTERDAY being Washington's Birthday, the event was celebrated by examinations in the morning and afternoon. We have always objected to this day being passed over in silence by Harvard College, and it is probably owing to our former remonstrances that the Faculty have chosen this neat and inexpensive manner of celebrating an event to which we all look back with pleasure. We have always been taught to emulate the Father of his Country, and an especially good opportunity to do so was given yesterday. As he was in the habit of cutting apple-trees, we might have cut examinations...
...HAVE been told that at some former time (the exact period I cannot state) the Corporation, or Faculty, or Steward, or somebody, was in the habit of buying coal in large quantities at the season of the year when it was cheapest; and that they then disposed of it to the students, throughout the year, at the original price. This was a wise custom, and made a saving to the students of that time which would not be despised in this enlightened age. I would therefore respectfully suggest to the powers that be, that they take this subject into their...
...same way the rowing interests of the country. The circumstances of the smaller colleges no doubt made the change necessary, as the weak state of our clubs made it necessary with us. We earnestly hope, however, that the change here is only temporary, and that in the spring the former state of affairs will be restored. There is no good reason for the inability of our clubs to turn out first-rate six-oared crews. Whether there are sufficient reasons for the action of the small colleges, they of course know best...
Still I was not disheartened. I went bravely by my favorite resting-places in former times, Schoendorff's and Parker's, and, although I had always made it a matter of principle not to come out before the last car and it was still early, I started immediately for Cambridge. As soon as I was seated in the horse-car I returned to my philosophical cogitations. I labored mentally on many deep metaphysical themes; I reasoned with myself whether I existed or not; I reflected on such subjects as abstract truth, and the immensity of space. So lost...