Word: pathway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is such a constant stream of travel from the gymnasium to Jarvis field, more care should not be taken for the safety and convenience of such persons who are at present beset by dangers above and below. We sincerely trust that the authorities will at least keep the pathway clear of obstacles and then we may possibly get used in course of time to an occasional avalanche from the upper regions of the laboratory...
...Then Legendre, represented by a wooden skeleton, attired only in a red flannel shirt, was ignominiously hauled to his doom in a brick cart, in which rode his executioners. After him marched the triumphant sophomores in a band fifty strong, bearing torches and Roman candles, and thus making their pathway glorious. After the conquerors marched the invited guests from the other classes of Columbia, presenting an imposing appearance in their long white gowns and high hats, as if they were householders fleeing from a burning city in their night dresses...
...Cambridge letter to the Providence Journal says: "It is a long, steep pathway to the beetling heights of Cambridge culture, but once there, the air is deliciously cool and fresh, the view superb, and the opportunity to look down upon one's fellow-men not only unparalleled but irresistible." The same letter intimates that in Cambridge society Harvard students are regarded as cyphers...
...public press would never cease from its attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale and others...