Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nigger baby" and "foot-and-a-half" - whatever they may be - are popular pastimes. With these on hand we see no reason why there should be a complaint of lack of employment for half-holidays...
...have only been there once," said he. "Then I saw Booth; but I had a guide, so I don't remember the way very well. You see," -growing confidential, to the great amusement of Jack, who can't ever keep his face straight, -"you see, they 've got an idea at home that I'm studying too hard, and when they saw in the paper (my grandmother takes the Weekly Transcript) that Janauschek was acting here, they thought it would be a good plan for me to go. So Uncle John and Aunt Hannah both...
...see." And I went...
...said often that Harvard no longer produces literary men. While we do not assent to this sweeping proposition, we do see, in the recent choice of subjects for the next Commencement exercises, an argument in favor of the assertion. Of the nineteen men to whom were assigned Commencement parts, no one of them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that...
THERE is one rule of the Library which we desire to see modified, and that is the rule which prevents students from taking periodicals from the Library. The theses in many of the courses require the use of the English reviews, and frequently at the hour of closing the Library a student has to stop in the middle of an article, and thus he is compelled to defer his work at least until the next day. While we can see the necessity of keeping periodicals in the Library during Library hours, we think that all magazines should be placed...