Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...PROFESSION.EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-During a trip in Europe, I learned that young men and gentle women were studying electrical engineering, which profession has not become over-crowded, and great fortunes have been made in its pursuit...
...limited and perverse sense of honor, sees but a little harm and a great deal of sport, the Cambridge judges have long looked on this simple and innocent amusement from a different point of vies. Lately two undergraduates had to pay a heavy fine for indulging in this pursuit, and Judge Ladd threatened the next offender brought before him with three weeks in jail. We doubt if even the sign-stealer, with his fine sense of the ludicrous, would like to change his pleasant Holworthy room for the even cosier quarters of Charles-Street jail. Not only this...
...abuse of the freedom of the yard, which is noticeable in the behavior of many of its frequenter. Of course these remarks are not intended to reflect upon the respectable Cantabrigians who pass through the yard daily on their way to and from their places of business or in pursuit of pleasure, for they know how to be have. But we do call especial attention to those who from their ignorance or youth are not to be expected to behave themselves unless repeatedly admonished-we mean the "muckers." Everyday during term-time the "mucker" is present in the yard...
...weekly journal, with an extensive circulation and of great influence, in a very favorable note congratulates the university on the progress it has made and the position it has attained. It holds up the Johns Hopkins as a model for the old universities of England to study in the pursuit of original research...
...rebuke the notion that money ought to be the main consideration of an American officeholder. Accordingly, in nearly all the States the salaries of judges and other functionaries have been fixed with reference to the wants of an ideal man of really lofty soul, utterly absorbed in the pursuit of things not seen, and by no means with reference to the wants of the ordinary American man of our time, whom we have to get to fill nearly all our salaried positions, with a wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social life around her, and children...