Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Down the stream alone I go...
...permit them to undertake certain gigantic schemes which from time to time attract them. Consolation of a more tangible sort is out of the question. Your allowance is quite as large as the family means will allow; so, during the course of the year, you will probably have to go through a good deal of pecuniary tribulation in the shape of accounts and economies of various kinds. But however bothered you may be about the best way to make both ends meet, don't complain aloud. A man who is known to be in want of cash is very...
...good deal of money, and was always talking about it. Little Biggs's father had made a fortune, in petroleum, I believe, and little B. himself was as generous as he was small. He never could see you without asking you to dine with him, or to go to the theatre with him, and sup with him after it; and he always insisted on paying the bill for the entire company. The result was that the decent half of the world took it into its head that he was a toady, and cut him altogether; while the other half sponged...
...F.THE Princetonian has reached the third number of its first volume, and as college papers go it may be called good. The editorial department might be decidedly improved. The editorials abound in what is called on daily papers "swashy writing." Many words are used to say what might much better be said in a few; and the words themselves are not all free from objection. Unless we are much mistaken, they will not find in either Webster or Worcester such a verb as "to inevitate" nor is the word sanctioned by any usage good or bad. But the Princetonian tells...
...peaceful somnolence and made useful to themselves and to Harvard. There does not seem to be a spark of enthusiasm where it can do any real good. Not a single volunteer worthy of present consideration has presented himself. Now, we can never hope to win a race while we go on in this way. It is impossible to get up a decent crew while no one cares to try for it. The present captain is forced to spend most of his time in urging men to join who ought to have volunteered long since, and be now working...