Word: share
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sweet and bitter fancy as consolation for the loss of the best parts of their reading matter. It is astonishing to us how any man who has the least respect for himself can filch articles from papers, knowing all the while that he is depriving other men of their share in the privileges to which, as members of the Reading-Room Association, they are entitled. Furthermore, this mutilation spoils not only the piece from which the extract is taken, but also whatever there may be on the other side of the leaf; so that the readable articles of a magazine...
...seriously, all that is possible should be done to render our rooms agreeable. There should be two goodies to share the work, - one to make the beds and do what most requires neatness, while the other should carry out the ashes, etc.; and the number of superintendents should be so increased that each goody should feel liable to a weekly or daily inspection, so that, if ignorant, she might be properly taught. But of course Harvard is too poor; and when I count up the different improvements which instructors and students desire, as well as all the advantages of instruction...
There is one side of our college "polygon" which it seems to me does not receive its due share of attention. The social side, meaning the intercourse of college men in their own rooms, is the one to which I refer. Let us go through the different buildings in the evening. About half the rooms we find locked; their inmates gone for amusement into Boston or elsewhere. We will take a look into some of the others. Here, in Matthews, is a man with one elbow resting on the table, the hand supporting his forehead, while a book is outspread...
...care was one to share...
...believe that it was to have elsewhere a wider scope, we should only have despair where we now find consolation. On Thursday he was buried (as he had wished to be) from the church in Cambridge-port, - the church to which he had given a large share of his time, whose services he had helped to beautify. In his death, although he was but entering upon his work, we have something of that feeling with which we greet the close of a long and hard-fought life. His labors in College were excessive; besides his regular studies, to which...