Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second is like unto...
FROM the Yale Courant we learn that the University Nine are to have a new and gorgeous uniform. "The material is a Scotch cassimere of a light gray color, with blue trimmings. The shirt is to be open before, like a coat; the sleeves without cuffs, but trimmed with blue at the wrists. The "Y" is to be wrought in blue silk on the breast. Over this is to be worn a loose roundabout without trimmings. The belt is blue and wrought. Knee-breeches are to be discarded, and the breeches will reach to the ankles and button over...
...what he is worth; at any rate, he gains nothing from merely being a student. This may be due to the fact that Boston, from having seen so many students in her day, has fathomed their nature; yet we are cautious in assigning this reason, for Boston is not like other towns, and perhaps would be able to judge without experience. But starting from this place, the student of Harvard finds that the consideration which he receives increases in proportion to the number of miles which separate him from his point of departure; and, with this increase of consideration...
...little country town in Pennsylvania, where, at a single evening gathering, we obtained more information about college jokes and scrapes than had come to us during a two years' previous residence at Cambridge. The reason of this was, that, shortly before our arrival, a respected classmate had shot, comet-like, into the society of this town, brightened it for a week with a thousand college tales, in which he generally appeared as hero, and finally departed, leaving the minds of the natives thoroughly illuminated by his train of fabrications. On hearing the name of this gallant scion of Harvard...
...excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded in producing upon the staid plodding men of our day an impression like that of the meteor, - his own guiding star...