Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have a proper regard for it in their management of our affairs; and if next year a petition were to be got up to employ a regular fencing master, the faculty would certainly not be compelled to grant the petition simply because a year before they had granted one like it for another sport...
...sides in answer to our re-current plea for various improvements in the college buildings, the cry of "no money." And "no money" it will doubtless be, until Gore Hall falls a mass of ruins upon the spot which it has failed to enlighten. We feel some-what like the friends of our religious home missions when told of the success of their brethren of the foreign missions. Yet when the abuses at present existing in the college, simply (so affirmed) because of a lack of funds to obviate them, are once brought before us, we cannot but wonder...
Note-taking like every other great system beneficial to humanity gives rise to many evils. The note, however, is one of these and deserves little regard on the face of the earth. Another and perhaps the crying evil of the system is the "syllabi" published in pamphlet form by the Cambridge printers, and issued at prices which would put to blush the projectors of an average edition de luxe...
...been no pretense made of heating the place, and yesterday morning the temperature was very near the zero point. It is positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that of yesterday, and the students, on going into this ice-house, may be compelled by unbearable cold to adjourn in a body without waiting for the formality of the usual morning services...
...there is around us, and in all our lives stuff enough to make good stories. And if there is not this material, we can never do much with what we borrow. A fellow need not necessarily confine himself to Adirondack deer hunts and the like; but almost any ordinary series of events may be idealized into something worth printing. We must take out of the mass of ephemeral, and comparatively insignificant happenings, the things lasting and significant. In other words, we must put into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures...