Word: path
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfume his hat and clothing for some time. It would seem as though our college would be too proud to use naptha lamps any way, for a little reflection will convince anyone that the town or corporation that uses these substitutes for real light, is on the downward path...
...Johns Hopkins is getting all the "national honor" that comes from the publications; and of course she deserves it, as long as she is the only institution that offers such advantages to writers. It is, however, to be regretted that other institutions do not move in the same path. And we wonder that Harvard does not seek after some of this "national fame" which has so deservedly come to Johns Hopkins. If Harvard undertook to publish the meritorious works of her graduates, there can be no doubt that those Harvard men, who have hitherto gone to Johns Hopkins with their...
...conclusion it may be said that a little better temper on the part of the supporters of the present regime would not be injurious, but very helpful to the best interests of the university. Those who wish to remove stumbling-blocks from Yale's path will not be daunted by the hard names that may be applied to them - not even by that most opprobrious of epithets, 'doctrinaires...
...would also call his attention to the fact that there are many other fertilizers now in use which are not only effective, but also inoffensive. This state of the grass drives us to the sidewalks, and there what do we find? Paving stones sunk below the level of the path, an utter absence of board walks, and everywhere underfoot, pools, rivulets, and streams of water, in which the unhappy student is obliged to wade. We think that this state of things, so often spoken of and so well known, ought to receive at least a trifling consideration from the authorities...
...with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which...