Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Later on some of her neighbor's children played rough games with her boys and beat them. One of them said that her youngest boy Johnny was afraid, because he wouldn't come out and sail boats with...
...should like to ask our E. C's. unbiassed opinion on garrulous coaching as exhibited by the Yale nine on Saturday. We only had one coach, and Yale had two; but what is "garrulity" in Cambridge, may be thought necessary coaching in a different climate: how is it neighbor...
...true, natural unforced sentiment, with its unborrowed thought, and if Harvard can show any productions excelling these in average she will do well. 'Imagination killed a man,' and we fear that Harvard has a great deal of this quality (i. e., not poetic imagination). As our next door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good an opinion of herself. Harvard, Yale and Princeton so frequently announce that they cannot be beat that many gradually...
...they are to serve this end, it is evident they must not be compulsory. In our day there is not that unanimity of feeling which makes the expression of the aspirations of all in a single form possible; what alone is sacred to one is wholly unmeaning to his neighbor. To make prayers compulsory, then, would in itself defeat their object, since they could not be for all an occasion of worship...
...tugging away at the 'pound and a quarter' chest-weights, and swinging 'fourteen ounce' Indian clubs with an absorbing devotion, worthy of so great a cause. All are delighted with our new teacher, and the hour for exercise is hailed with joy. Everyone is exhibiting an interest in her neighbor's muscle, and the girl who can vault is looked upon with wonder and amazement by the majority of the new girls, although by this time they are quite 'old' and worldly-wise...