Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thought best to go and buy a College paper, and was disappointed to find the Lampoons all sold, and I would not buy the new paper called "Advocate," so I got a heliotype of the Football Nine and went back to the Yard; by this time it was evening, and the trees were covered with jack-o'lanterns, and the Glee Club serenaded the band. I was pained to see how many poor little boys were around, but was told they were the children of the "goodies," and had special privileges...
There was a break-down in Massachusetts Hall during the afternoon, and I heard there would be a Stag Dance at midnight; but, being very tired, I hurried home, and determined to go out next week to see the rooms; so soon as I have been, I will write you, and until then, with love...
...HOLLAND, writing in Scribner's, suggests that Yale and Harvard establish a course in politics. After three years of study of political economy, international and inter-state law, constitutional law and history, finance, and diplomacy (a rather ambiguous word), the graduate should go before an examining board at Washington to obtain a certificate of fitness for office. Armed with this certificate, he is to go before the people and take his chances for election; and even if he were not elected, the general culture of the community would be elevated by the presence of such a learned person. A knowledge...
HARVARD labors under a disadvantage in being a college where it is suitable to go regardless of expense. A certain class of young men must be sent to college because that is the high-toned thing, and famous and costly institutions will be the victims, and that in spite of high standards. At the same time some of the best material will be lost on account of lack of means, - Oberlin Review...
...wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with red-hot coals. If I go out, and leave the window open to cool...