Word: home
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...From the home of our infantile years...
...other communication of which we wish to speak is a letter from President Andrews of Marietta College to his wife, which has been dragged into the columns of the College Olio. It purports to be a description of Oxford University; it is in reality a "home" letter of the most commonplace sort. As a private communication we refrain from criticising it; but we cannot commend the taste which places such a document before even the limited portion of the public who read the College Olio...
...into the water, making them bury after the stroke and taking off the headway, just when it is most important that it should be kept up. It is indeed tempting in a race to hurry on to the strong part of the next stroke, and neglect the "elbows well home past the sides" and the "easy finish...
...board several English noblemen, among whom was the Duke of Sutherland, who is famous at home for going to all the fires in London. The policemen on the beats near his home have standing instructions to call him whenever there is a fire of any consequence anywhere in the city. He was the roughest-looking person on the ship in his attire. The Indian English, of whom there were a great number on board, were more intelligent and infinitely more agreeable and courteous than their countrymen who have always lived at home. They appear to have lost their insularity...
...first innings closed with a blank for both sides. In the second innings Kent got his first, Thayer went out, when Ernst got a heavy hit to left field which the fielder failed to get in front of, and before the ball could be returned home Kent and Ernst had both scored. The Harvards batted the Princeton pitcher much better than in the first game, and played an almost perfect fielding game. The Princetons were naturally nervous from their loss of sleep the night before and from their defeat at New Haven. Notwithstanding this, they played pluckily, and could have...