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Word: harvard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FOUR Harvard graduates are now in the customs service of China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Marryat's works looks very well on the shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing the inscription "Harvard Laundry," which brilliant witticism he intended to hang over his mantel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHAMBER OF HORRORS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than the greatest profusion of cheap trash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHAMBER OF HORRORS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...YOUNG lady, on entering a crowded horse-car, observed the sign, "Beware of Pickpockets!" She made her way to the middle of the car, and stopped beside a tall, fine-looking Harvard student, whose head towered up so high that it was unnoticed by the maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A PICKPOCKET. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Excuse me, miss," interposed the gentleman from Harvard, "but you have your hand in my pocket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A PICKPOCKET. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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