Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Argus is to a certain extent just. The quantity of matter which we receive is not all that we could wish, and does not allow us all the liberty of choice that could be desired. Our fellow-students have an excuse in the numerous social duties which the neighborhood of a great city entails. But we wish that more generous contributions from them might tend to raise, us nearer to the inattainable standard of our Middletown contemporary...
...fashioned divine. Religious topics and scientific facts are frequently introduced at times when their connection with the subject of discourse is imperceptible. His conversation at its best would never be selected as a model of grammatical purity or refined elegance. The name of every by-way in his neighborhood is to him a household word; but he is a comparative stranger to the highways, and when seen there, is usually observed to appear ill at ease...
...growing infirmities of Dr. Walker's health obliged him to resign the presidency in 1860, and the last fourteen years of his life were spent in most beautiful and honored retirement in our immediate neighborhood. He was re-elected to the Board of Overseers in 1864, and was a member of it at the time of his death. But Dr. Walker is remembered by his pupils and friends more for his power in the pulpit, than for all the services, invaluable as they were, which he rendered in secular life. Once in four weeks, for twenty years, he regularly preached...
...more cases of sneak thieves entering students' rooms have recently occurred. Fortunately they were detected before opportunity had been offered to exercise their trade, and in one case they received a necessary reproof. It is said that two or three such characters have been seen in the neighborhood of the buildings, and it is proper that students should be on their guard...
...appears that the value of land for building purposes in the neighborhood of the field has been depreciated in value by the unsightly appearance of the grounds. This depreciation affects not only the residents, but indirectly also the interests of the Memorial Hall Association. In view of this the Overseers have passed a resolution to tear down the wooden building and the seats, grade the land, and fence in the whole field. No objection will then be made to the erection of seats, if they are neatly constructed, or even to a suitable building, if thought desirable. It is reasonable...