Word: home
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...disappeared. These difficulties they had not foreseen, and could not exist in duck-shooting, which we determined to try that afternoon. But, alas for our high hopes, ducks there were none, and after an hour's shooting at a target, in hopes of attracting the birds, we returned home to sup off the ducks that little boy had shot...
...college life, in May, 1872 (the day which ended for him a long struggle between love of his work and associations here, on the one hand, and constantly increasing suffering on the other), he reluctantly left a match game in progress on Jarvis Field, and went to his home in Boston. Once again he was in Cambridge, when, in spite of the inclement weather and of his weakness, he came to take what part he might in the Class Day of '74, - his own Class Day. On Tuesday last his body was borne past the College Yard, under the shadow...
...intellectual tastes and moral characteristics, and accustomed to the prosecution of studies, all eminently fitted to prepare you for your great work; familiar with all the departments both of pupilage and instruction in the Institution, within whose walls you have been nurtured and almost domesticated, as in a second home; your judgment enlarged and strengthened by the ripened fruits of foreign travel, and the observation and study of the best processes of education at home and abroad; receiving a generous and cordial welcome from your learned and accomplished associates to their companionship and chieftainship; and added to all these personal...
...increase its roll of membership. The fear of assessments we are assured need deter none, as they promise to be very small, and will grow smaller as the number of members increase. It is a well-learned lesson of our defeat at Saratoga, that we must make contests at home, if we would have champions abroad, and another year, we trust, will bring laurels to Harvard for well-earned athletic victories...
...itself a stranger. Some, to remedy this, make thought a property of matte; others, matter but a mode of force or will; both parties fail in their end, because the opposites to be harmonized are not mind and matter, but the "wholes amid which alone the spirit feels at home, and the atoms or points with which science has to do." It is only by an honest synthesis in our minds of the results of the analysis of science that we can reach the glory of the ideal...