Word: lives
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desk an encyclopedia opened at the letter H, and on the top of the page was written "I think I must be crazy." These were the only words which could be found having a direct bearing on the cause of his death. The young man's parents, who live in New York, were at once notified of their son's suicide...
...suppose that Harvard is just rolling in wealth and doesn't know what to do with her cash is about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which they intend to make better. Harvard is still growing. It has a future as well...
...school needs about five million dollars to set it well upon its feet, and to make it the great university it is destined to be. But those millions are sure to come, as others have come, because these live men believe in that practical sense which vigorously abandons the methods of the darker ages and faces the future. The administration of President Eliot, when it is concluded, will stand as monument to commemorate this American genius for college building...
...none but unfortunate freshmen roomed elsewhere than "in college," but owing to the increasing dilapidation of the college building and the rapid increase of society houses, there has been a constant emigration from College Hill to the village. Of the students rooming in town above a hundred and ten live in society houses. These houses are owned by the Amherst chapters of the various Greek letter fraternities. Seven in number, they differ greatly in age, architecture, size, situation, convenience and elegance. Besides the secret lodge-room, the parlors and reading-room, each house has accommodations for from ten to eighteen...
...dormitories. Other sections contain the chapel, library, laboratories and lecture rooms. In the basement is the common, dining-room. Each of the four college societies has a table of its own; there are also neutral tables for non-society men, and others for members of the faculty who live in the building...