Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Stuff!" she interrupted, "the elective system is a failure. You keep boys steadily at school from the time they are big enough to run alone, pick out their studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere cramming machines, and then, after this process has gone on ten or a dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave...
...they looked on one side of the question only. Before accepting a position of importance a man should weigh well everything that might be disagreeable to him; and after he has once accepted it is only just to the society that, in spite of difficulties, he should keep on. In many cases it is possible to get another man for the place, and the harm done is not so great; sometimes, however, it happens in college that, by reason of his peculiar fitness, a man is selected to take a certain office; if such a one resigns because the society...
...have only been there once," said he. "Then I saw Booth; but I had a guide, so I don't remember the way very well. You see," -growing confidential, to the great amusement of Jack, who can't ever keep his face straight, -"you see, they 've got an idea at home that I'm studying too hard, and when they saw in the paper (my grandmother takes the Weekly Transcript) that Janauschek was acting here, they thought it would be a good plan for me to go. So Uncle John and Aunt Hannah both...
...care for the status quo, and the Pope's legs are horribly swollen." Now I don't know what a status quo is, and I don't believe he does. Why will he talk so? I was secretly glad yesterday when the instructor opened the window to keep the men awake, for I knew my neighbor did n't wear any overcoat...
...College Telegraph Company propose to keep up with the times; to this end they have abandoned the old Morse sounders, and, if a number of students sufficient to make the experiment pay will join the company, telephones will be introduced immediately. The rent of the telephones will be ten dollars each per year, and their use on the line will not interfere with the old instruments, should any one prefer to remain an old fogy. Students wishing to join the company are requested to send their names to the Secretary immediately, so that the line may be put in working...