Word: home
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this season of the year, when the undergraduate comes from home laden with the gifts of his fond parents and doting aunts, when tobaccopouches and match-boxes fill his trunks, it is strange that Memorial Hall should be used for lighting friction-matches...
...year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only one contest which we are not better provided with at home, namely, the contest in oratory. Even this bids fair to lose its place on the programme, and the man who urges its abolishment is the stanchest friend of the Association, Dr. McCosh. In its place he would have a discussion of "live topics," - a change so startling as to cause...
...blame 'em if they are," said the stoutman. "If I was a young man, away off from home, with everybody turning the cold shoulder to me, I 'm afraid I 'd be dissipated. They seek the company which gives them the kindest reception. Now, judging from the specimens I 've seen, these young men, when they come here, are really fine fellows. As a rule, it is the best parents who send their sons to college, and it is their best sons that they send. Such sons will be more likely to do good than harm. I don't think...
...Club last Friday were exhibited three of Mr. Moore's studies of the Venetian masters, forming part of the collection he has already sent home as specimens of his own work during his stay abroad...
...love of study. Harry is a bon-vivant at Harvard; he is continually giving dinners; he has a little box at the Globe, and a big bill at Ober's; but you shall hear the fond mother say, "Poor Harry is applying himself too much; he has come home quite pale, and we are afraid of a brain-fever...