Word: savings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inestimable aid to the student in preparing for the weekly written questions and will save hours of study in preparation for the mid-year and final examinations. For sale by Amee, Sever, Thurston, and Wheeler...
...without a pupil. The relation between them must be cordial. Among the students a great deal of good could be done by a man without his being conscious of it. The kindly word, the helpful act towards one less fortunately placed would often strengthen him, and save him from a terrible temptation...
...sustained until the last man was out. Harvard's success was largely due to the battery work of Paine and Scannell. While the former did not strike out many men, he prevented Yale from hitting safely at critical moments. Scannell caught a good steady game and did much to save his pitcher from having several wild pitches scored against him. His work with the bat, also, was remarkable. In the field Stevens and Garrison did the best work. Both made very creditable catches of difficult fly balls...
...hardly far enough. The law also calls only the earth and what is immovably attached to it real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he has been stripped of those others falsely so called, and which alone save him from seeming and from being the miserable forked radish to which the bitter scorn of Lear degraded every child of Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth...
...reform through the past and not in spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance in politics may save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry jolt and sometimes even from such a total overturn as that of the French Revolution. Montaigne's unconscious errand was not to break away from tradition, but to show that the past was even more valuable in certain ways...