Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that class. The system employed a year ago was generally recognized as a decided step towards open elections, in the best sense of the term, and as such was heartily welcomed by Harvard men. Yet this system contains much of the evil that existed in the old system of former classes, without catching much of the justice and tone of an open election. Any instance of its normal workings will show this...
...expression, "Mrs. Morrissey and other high-bred* dames," besides being quite neat, is exceedingly flattering to Mrs. M., and although I have known of Mrs. Morrissey only as the wife of a former notorious rough, still I suppose if Mr. Buckham chooses to call her a "high-bred dame" it is perfectly correct. The gentleman, however, need have no fear that the high-bred dames, Mrs. Morrissey included, would ever so far forget themselves as to be induced, by the entrance of his crew, to do such an utterly rash and absurd thing as to bet on them...
...finances of the Reading-Room are in a promising state, and an effort is now being forwarded by the open handed few to pay off the debt for gas, that former years bequeathed to us. Those who are most interested in the present stability and future success of the Reading-Room will find the Directors more than willing to receive their subscriptions towards paying off this debt...
...Avery, Captain of the Yale Nine, came up to see me early this year, and, after talking the matter over, we decided that it would be better not to go to Saratoga this year, and determined to arrange matters so that the games could be played as in former years, that is to say, during term-time, and on the grounds of the colleges...
...seen, when we consider that there are fourteen daily newspapers published within a radius of four miles; suffice it, then, to say that all went well at Lexington but the President and the northwest-wind, - the latter failing to please because it did blow, and the former because he did n't, - but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. The President was two hours late in coming from Concord to Lexington, which interfered with the proposed order of ceremonies at the latter place; but, as far as success lay within the power of the town...