Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fund of a million dollars to endow this leading university of the South. Of this sum, about $400,000 has been raised, one half being received from citizens of the North. The university is located at Lexington, Va., in the center of large coal fields and in the neighborhood of extensive iron ore mines, where every facility will be afforded students to put into practice the scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university...
...getting a respectable class in point of numbers; but if the facts were known its whole course would be shown to have been marked by continual discord. This feature has no doubt played a prominent part in bringing about its final collapse, which turned out of doors in the neighborhood of forty students who had paid their money for that which they will never get. This wrong has, however, been somewhat lessened by the American Veterinary College coming to the aid of the students. It magnanimously offered the junior class an asylum by exchanging matriculation tickets. This virtually places that...
...some day showing them to their grandsons with "I did it, and now I am President!" or from any peculiar expectation, but rather from thoughtlessness. And on the whole we are inclined to think that any thoughtlessness which leads a man into the practice of whittling everything in his neighborhood is open to considerable objection; and so we would recommend that this practice be given up here and allowed to join its companions in the land of tradition...
...seems to deserve attention, and enough notice of it ought to be taken to arouse an inquiry as to whether the Harvard Veterinary School is in reality pursuing the most successful course when it succeeds in bringing down on its head the maledictions of the veterinary profession in its neighborhood...
...necessary to say a few words about a nuisance that all students are compelled to put up with,-playing a musical instrument out of hours. It would seem almost too obvious a fact to mention that all such performances are most disagreeable to those in the neighborhood of the player's room ; and yet from the blissful unconsciousness with which these musical attempts are continued, it really appears to be necessary to call attention to it. Music, between the regulation hours of three and nine, doubtless "hath charms to soothe the savage breast," but we are forced to say that...