Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three-quarters of a century ago, Harvard was generally regarded as a nest of unbelievers, but at present, every day is writing her justification. At Yale, in 1796, there were only eleven professing Christians in the whole college; in 1799, but five, and for many years after that. an average of one to a class. To day almost one-half her students are church-members. At Amherst, seventy per. cent of the undergraduates are members of the church. - Phillipian...
...curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously an attempt to lift him from his nest of wet moss. The collection of reptilia in the Agassiz Museum, although it cannot be seen under the favorable auspices which our correspondent was as fortunate as to obtain, is nevertheless remarkably well worth a visit, for next to that of the Smithsonian Institution it is the most complete...
...thing there can be no doubt. While other colleges stand aghast at Harvard innovations, while presidents of the McCosh school raise their voices in tones of pious horror, and a great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...
...argue that drink is stimulating, and that what is stimulating is physically beneficial. Very good; but so is a hornet's nest stimulating. Is it physically beneficial...
...heart in a nest of roses...