Word: riches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your readers who chance to run through this article may, as they follow the description of Paris university life, imagine themselves for the time being over here taking a cursory retrospective view of their respective lives at Harvard. They will soon, I think, begin to notice how rich and full of warmth is the coloring of Harvard life as they picture it to themselves...
Prof. Shaler is to direct the search soon to be made of an alleged coal mine in the town of Mansfield. The coal near the surface is slatey, but it is believed that further down there is a rich deposit...
...much the university may grow, the north-east corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances...
...prose compositions. If that editor of the Yale News who described "Eighty-four's Promenade," should leave such unlimited power to his biographers, we fear that the revised edition of his recent four-column article would suffer severe abridgment. That article is overflowing with poetic sentiments; the rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance, of a "top gallery, separated from the world below by a light cloud of blue muslin, from whence floated the music of Wheeler and Wilson's" - sewing machine, we read it first...
...another "pard," covered with dirt and wearing a lamp in his cap, took us along a low passage, explained the different strata of soft sandy rock and the methods of working them, and pointed out two or three veins of silver ore, and then the last vein, which was rich gold ore. After splashing around in the mud, bumping our heads against the low ceiling formed by the rock, and collecting specimens, we returned to the shaft, where the small spot of blue sky overhead cast a dim light...