Word: rising
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...abyde, numbering twenty-seven souls. It is a large and fair brick structure two storeys high, and I am led to believe that there is scarce an equal to it on this side y ocean. The sleeping apartment consists of a large dormitory furnished with comfortable straw cots. We rise at five and go out into the yard to wash bye y time-honoured pump, after which y head professor - there are two tooters beside - conducts prayers. Oh Jno! how proud I am to be a son of one of the glorious May-flour pilgrims! How I delight in this...
...paper remains in the same hands in which it was last year. The popularity which the paper had attained during the last year led the editors to hope for a rather wider circulation than before; and by way of attracting public attention, they issued the circular which has given rise to so much misapprehension. The meaning of this was nothing more than that they hoped for encouragement from the friends of Harvard away from Cambridge; and that, while edited by Harvard men and looking at things from a Harvard point of view, the Lampoon did not intend to confine itself...
...would meet him if he entered a dry-goods house with a like notion. But if he is willing to learn with patience the technicalities, and is willing to submit to those more experienced than himself, he will find that a college education will greatly aid him to rise in a profession whose heights must be gained by climbing, and whose approaches are often guarded by unlettered men who act with the true spirit of the dog in the manger...
...system all over the world, - they have introduced into the public schools the teaching of etiquette. When a stranger enters the school-room, the scholars - no matter how much their attention has been previously engrossed in erecting pins on their neighbors, chairs and in surreptitiously eating molasses candy - all rise together, and, with much grace of manner, wish him "a good morning." When the gentleman leaves, the same performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform...
...college, and we believe it was considered useless to present them to the Faculty. Prayers will remain, therefore, as at present. We discussed in our last issue the inconveniences which would attend the plan of having breakfast before prayers. It seems, however, that the men who are anxious to rise with the lark are very much in earnest; this is particularly the case with law students, some of whom have threatened to leave the Association unless a change is made. Accordingly, the Directors, at their last meeting, voted to have breakfast begin at seven, and to have the doors remain...