Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justified that the plan laid out for this year surpasses them all. The Catskills and the Berkshire Hills are charming summer retreats and the advantage of combining pleasure with work thus will be made easy. We can prophesy that the former will not suffer at the expense of the latter...
...face look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea joined to the conception of the modern word holiness, half its force is lost. Most men of the present day would rather be called sinners than saints, and what is needed now is spiritual minded men of the world. What purposes can a man fill to better advantage than...
...civilizing forces which have developed and built up that continent. It was this very system which uprooted feudalism, and rendered the barbarity at tending it no longer possible. It is true that armies cost something, but so do peaceful governments, yet no one would favor the suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies protect commerce, they prevent many wars and shorten others. They are, so to speak, a tax for insurance...
...Association were held week before last and were universally pronounced by far the most successful ever given by the association. Three Yale records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by one inch and a quarter, and the high-kick by two inches, the latter being only two inches less than the world's record. The sparring and wrestling contests were a great improvement over those of last year, and the whole meeting reflected great credit on the management and contestants...
...report sent out Monday that representatives of Columbia College were in town conferring with Yale in regard to the latter's being admitted as the third crew in the race at New London next summer, and that Yale was willing to have them do so, is pronounced by Captain John Rogers. Percey Bolton, the coach, and many others of the crew to be utterly without foundation...