Word: ills
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advantages that would attend its introduction are so many that the enumeration of a few will suggest hundreds of others, for there is no limit to the usefulness of the new invention. There would be no more weary hours spent in the ill-ventilated recitation-rooms, which your papers are continually harping upon; nor would the deplorable condition of the walks cause any inconvenience to the students. The instructor could sit in his cosey library and ask his questions, and the student could answer while rolling another cigarette. As for those students who would be likely to read their answers...
...life an unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect and warm affection of all within the circle of his acquaintance and the sphere of his influence. The community can ill spare so conspicuous an example of conscientious fidelity in so many and so various trusts; and with his successive classes of pupils and his numerous friends he leaves a memory which will be a lifelong inspiration and incentive in every worthy endeavor and honorable career...
...have found some pleasure in reading the book. The extremes of criticism have been found in reviews outside the college press. While we have found nothing in the book to justify the indiscriminate praise of the Boston journals, we have certainly found nothing to justify the contemptuous and ill-natured growls of the New York Times and the Atlantic...
...Cornell Senior Class elections occurred on Saturday, January 27, and were attended by "the usual wire-pulling, cliquing, slanders, misrepresentations, and ill feeling...
...have been brought home to many Seniors during the jollifications of the holidays, for in the midst of the merriest punch a feeling of sadness would come over all at the thought that this was the last Christmas vacation of our undergraduate life, together with the thought of how ill prepared we are to struggle with the world next year...