Word: lived
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perhaps you know many, many Alice Palmers, and some who flirt even more than did the lovely blonde or pretty Daisy Miller. Yet surely no one would say that the girls of today are not as good as those that our grandfathers loved. If you think that we live in a state of society not as pure as that of a hundred years ago, read Richardson's "Clarissa," or Fielding's "Amelia," or "Tom Jones...
...have invariably met just the day before and will not meet again for a month, so that petitions to the board of directors are very much like the pension claim of the old soldier who had calculated that, should everything go smoothly, his great grandchild would have to live to be ninety-six years old to profit by his wounds. Another very curious thing is the fact that if one dines out but two nights in the week beef is always marked twenty-five cents all the other nights of that week. I have studied over this problem and have...
...drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College is a place where the great purpose of all is apt to be forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated;" 3. "We live here in an undomestic and unsocial state." On the second head he says very finely: "This great purpose is study. Now this is much more difficult, and requires much more moral exertion to devote one's self to, as an object, than the more active duties of after life...
...cannot, while I live, forget...
Liquor is what makes all the "potenteries;" a rum-seller can never be a happy man. John don't drink, and he says he's respected by all the students. He is now 48, and he "may live a dozen years yet." When he dies, he is "going home...