Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President White of Cornell. says "The most devoted Christian men here, as in many other institutions of learning, saw reason to believe that the usual forced attendance upon morning college prayers was of very doubtful utility. To huddle into a cheerless room a great mass of students just hurried from their breakfasts, with minds intent upon the recitation of the next hour, is certainly a very doubtful way of inducting young men into the beauty of holiness...
...upon the wicked and busy mortals below. Once, we are told, a sweet scented rose fell from this ethereal region. This sacred region is the object of no little worship. I remember once watching the men as they filed into the hall, and I can safely say that I saw nine out of every ten who entered, look up to the gallery, often even before they were seated at table, and without fail afterwards. Then next there is the basement, which some have even dared to call the other place. Of this wonderful place, we have memories both pleasant...
...quite so bad, as all the way however, for one dear old lady did keep her company the first night, but no further, so that Sunday until Monday noon saw her in Chicago, she was at the mercy of a car full of Harvard Students, who were the other occupants of the car! Thank of this! The first long journey, first experience in a sleeper, and if not her first with young men, certainly the only time they had been exclusively Cambridge students. What would an English matron say at the mention of dangerous sophomores and freshly freshmen as travelling...
...which other colleges have, and marked their wealth of illustration and the variety of their pages, would doubtless expect to fine that the greatest University of the country had gotten up something very choice and desirable; but how rudely would the feelings of that stranger be shocked when he saw the plain little handbook that does duty with...
...hard work to repair. Having received an education at the two leading sets of learning in their respective departments and a practical knowledge of his calling both as an officer and professor in the army, be was well qualified to accept the position of professor to which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader has fallen, another gap been made in the ranks...