Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York has a "Thirteen Club," organized to show the contempt of the members for the popular superstition. There are many members, but only thirteen sit down to the same table...
...What does a College consist of? A Gym-na-si-um, a Fac-ul-ty and An E-lec-tive Sys-tem. Is the College rich? No, the College is poor, So poor that it can-not Provide Chairs for its Professors and So they are obliged to Sit on the Students...
...transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees him as surely as President Barnard knows a hawk from a handsaw, and when he wants anything in the Greek line he orders it from Illinois...
...Dean of Westminster, G. G. Bradley, is a graduate of Oxford and former master of University College. The London World, in a sketch of his life, has this sentence: "He would sit with a kindly smile for all comers, a playful affectionateness toward his children, and a gentle tolerance even for those rowdy and athletic undergraduates, whom he struggled all his time to comprehend...
...college will do everything possible to heat the building. We are glad to see that the authorities are not blind to the comfort of students, as many are apt to think. There certainly was ground for complaint in the fact that a large number of men were compelled to sit during a cold day in a room which had not been heated for several days, and it is very fortunate that an explanation of the cause has been given...