Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...characteristic pointed manner, interspersing his remarks with numerous anecdotes. He said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license. The only...
...over the announced changes in the admission requirements. One newspaper warns the exultant anti-classicists that Harvard, instead of setting the lead, may be held up as an example of what a college should not be. Another newspaper, with sinister mysteriousness, gives out the hint that Harvard has thrown overboard, along with prescribed Greek, more than she suspects. Still another talks gloomily about the "combined forces of moneyed considerations and a false liberalism" "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning," and indicates quite (?) that Harvard "has sold its (?) right for a mess of pottage." They are mature announcement of the change...
...accordance with the tendency of the French to throw overboard everything of historic development to suit some rationalistic theory, the faculties of their universities have logically become purely institutes for instruction-special schools, with definite regulations for the course of instructions developed and quite distinct from those institutions which are to further the progress of science such as the College de France, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Ecle des Etudes Superieures. The faculties are entirely separated from one another, even when they are in the same town. The course of study is definitely prescribed, and is controlled by frequent...
...find myself overboard indeed, on the floor, the alarm clanging furiously in my ears. Yes, it was two o'clock; and I must dress and be off. But I'll stop the alarm first, for it might wake Boxer, and then there'd be a pretty go. It had not occurred to me how I should stop it. I looked at the back. No, the hammer could not be got at. I shook it well. So far from disturbing it, the motion seemed to afford it an additional stimulus. It seemed to enjoy the exercise. Clang! clang! jang! whirr...
...last, with the usual spirit of fair play which characterizes the attitude of most of the Boston papers toward Harvard, took occasion to make some mean-spirited and untruthful insinuations in regard to the conduct of the '83 crew, when, a couple of weeks ago, a woman fell overboard from a bridge under which the crew had just passed. The crew naturally turned their boat as soon as possible, and hastened to the rescue, arriving in time to be of very material service to a man who had put out from the bank to the woman's assistance, in getting...