Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would go over to read in the Library. I had been here nearly two months, and had never entered the building. It's not fashionable, you know; but it would be so awkward to be questioned about it in society. I must get posted, and what better opportunity than this Saturday afternoon when everybody was away? So over I went...
...their piercing gaze. At last, they too walked out; and I was surprised to see every man straightway leave his seat to seek the name of the fair visitor. They crowded about the book, and I heard a disappointed voice say, "Keokuk, Iowa." It was a clear case of "Go West, young...
...left the Dante lying open on the table. It may be there still. I shall never go...
...Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes, etc.), good; self-esteem, very low; sensibilities, none. Young man, I 'll go no further; you are especially adapted to the dental school, and I earnestly advise you to enter at once...
...employed as follows: $4,800 will be divided among sixteen scholarships, four in each class, to be known as Robert Troup Paine Scholarships. $1,500 to be devoted to prizes for essays on various subjects, and the remainder ($1,700) is to go to the Library, - $800 to be spent in buying books and $900 to be set aside as an accumulating fund...