Word: path
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Class Committee will soon start out on the war path to get subscriptions to the class fund...
...night that he of all men was least capable of giving conscientious advice upon political life for young men; and his semi-apologetic utterances on that evening tended to strengthen that belief. Mr. Lodge, brilliant and able man as he is, was unable to follow what he calls the "path of principle," when brought face to face with it two years ago. An earnest opponent of Mr. Blaine, he went to Chicago avowedly to oppose that gentleman's methods and personality, and as the champion of reform and pure government. When he was defeated, he turned to the right about...
...work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends by colors and odors, and guide them by a beaten path to their goal; they discourage intruders by ingenious safeguards...
...Harvard, between 1869 and 1881, used $2,307,305 for the same purpose. It is customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni that comes, forward to ease the pecuniary path of their alma mater. But the graduates have never been asked to give: they are more often treated as interlopers in college affairs than persons whose support or backing is desirable. Yale men who will take the trouble to read Mr. Henry C. Kingsley's contribution to the November number...
...Regulations, students are forbidden to have any unauthorized books or papers in an examination-room." This is a very sensible announcement, surely, in view of the widespread interest which has of late been aroused upon this subject. If any student seeks a flaming sword to hold him in the path of right, here it is, two-edged at that. While some disciples (or leaders?) of reform are for abolishing that servile committee of surveillance, the proctors, and while, moreover, this reform has already been tried with success in some of the higher courses, perhaps a too hasty change would...