Word: livingness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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PERHAPS it is in accordance with the saying that there is no pleasure without its pain that an examination in Greek has been assigned to the Freshmen on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Hitherto it has been the custom to give to the entire college a recess from ten o'clock...
Aug. 25. - Wake early, but not bright. Drizzling rain. Suggest to Freshman that we take it easy. Freshman acquiesces with ill-concealed delight. Says he has rich uncle (who dotes on him) living three miles ahead. Time to uncle's gate, two hours. Servant won't let us in; has...
Its goal, the mighty ocean's living death.
Neither the words "misfortune" nor "fate" seem to apply to that condition of positive evil which the tendency of the age to extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase...
Every robbery and defalcation, from that of the clerk who took the money from the letters in the Post-Office to the more recent case of the Albany cashier, was committed for the selfish purpose of living better. The former bought a house for his parents; the others took what...