Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same man who said that things had changed astonishingly in a couple of centuries. In the seventeenth century Bunyan produced the Pilgrim's Progress; in the nineteenth the progress of pilgrims produces bunions...
...report of the fire we have given sufficient facts to enable every one to form his own opinion. The firemen worked with alacrity and with unbounded pluck, but they showed great need, particularly at first, of some one able to give directions. It has been often said that, in case of a fire at night in one of the buildings, no one would be safe. This was before a theory; it is now unfortunately a proven fact. That we utterly lack any means of preserving our lives or property, in case of a fire under less favorable circumstances than that...
...have received a copy of an article in the School Bulletin, in which Mr. J. H. Allen, so well known as a scholar, has taken the trouble to reply in detail to the criticisms which Mr. D. T. Reilley, said to be of Rutgers College, made on a little book of Mr. Allen's called the "Latin Primer," and designed to "teach little children the elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley...
...refused in the beginning to have anything to do with it, and we have since gazed down from our eminence with placid enjoyment upon the eager struggle for the wreaths which crown the finest orator, the best writer, and the champions in Greek and mathematics. We have never said, in so many words, that we were too big for such amusements; but that is what our actions have said for us. I have no means of knowing whether the other colleges feel offended by all this; but, if the tone of our papers displeases them, there is no reason...
...morrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would advise you to be round then." Well, the long and short is, it was cards and whiskey between the conductor, the station-man, Bill the engineer, the fireman, and myself for most of the next forty-eight hours till Thursday noon, when the conductor said we were all ready to start, if we only had another passenger. In the interval of waiting the conductor read an old Mulligan County Gazette, the engineer and fireman played at stick-knife, and I examined the engine. Here are my notes...