Word: home
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...Pennsylvanian remarks editorially: "Although in the Harvard-Pennsylvania contest we scarcely predicted a home victory, yet we did believe that Pennsylvania would score and make the game a brilliant and close one. As it was, our team played a good game, but their light - weight and bad initial policy counted against them, and they were fairly and squarely beaten...
...fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess is from four to twelve days shorter than with the majority of the institutions for higher education in this country. Those of us who live west of Chicago cannot possibly get home by Christmas day unless we start before college closes, nor can we get back to Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless we start several days before New Year's. It seems to me that the time has come for our Faculty to recognize in the arrangement...
...attending them. But when the college authorities see fit to fix important examinations for the day before the recess, some protest ought to be made. If we cut those examinations we endanger our standing for the year, and if we do not cut them, some of us cannot get home till after Christmas. The Christmas week and the New Year's week, both entire, ought to form the recess, because they are universally recognized as holiday weeks. But if the faculty thinks best continue college exercises into one or both of these weeks, the exercises should be made as nearly...
...progress and liberality to recognize truths which have failed to receive attention here. The vacations given at Harvard have always been awarded grudgingly. The effect of this policy is to compel a student to cut a day or two if he intends to spend any time at all at home and means to enjoy himself while there. Above all, a length of time longer than now existing should be given to the students at Christmas, as it is the only chance they many have during the entire year to spend at home with their families. The time thus taken from...