Word: landing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...swift thy boat to land...
...service Harvard has never counted any sacrifice too costly. Founded when Charles I. was King of England, this institution shared to the full the poverty and hardships in which the nation was cradled. When President Washington visited the College the whole value of the land, buildings, collections, and securities belonging to the President and Fellows was less than the sum of the bequests and gifts which have been paid to our treasurer in the single year since we last sat at these tables ($225,000), There were fewer students then than teachers now. It is delightful to think...
...Seventy-seven in regard to Mr. Warren's photographic efforts is decidedly one of disappointment. Perhaps it is safe to say that much was not expected; for the selection of the committee was at the very best but a leap in the dark, and nobody had any expectation of landing on terra firma. Certain it is that if by terra firma is meant good faithful work, the result shows a wide gap between land and water. For ourselves, we saw at the time no reason why Mr. Notman should be cast aside and the self-styled (Cambridgeport) "Celebrity Photographer" should...
...moral standard of the College is lower than ever before in its history, and Harvard is now acknowledged to be the most immoral, extravagant, and unchristian educational institution in the land...
...this man who, I cannot help thinking, notwithstanding his taste, to be a bit of a snob, and let us pass the evening with the friend whose book-case does not harmonize with his room, but is full of the best English books and a few from the "pleasant land of France...