Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Bubbled through the softening soil...
THERE is a world-wide prejudice, I might almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox...
...which not only involve great expenditure of money, but also foster vice by creating in students a desire for betting, and devote a part of the money hither-to spent on these to the purchase of agricultural implements and the formation of a society for the cultivation of the soil...
...exchange says : "Can the watermelon be successfully cultivated on sandy soil, with a theological seminary near by, containing a hundred and twenty students studying for the ministry...
...Port is our vampire. Her government runs streets for shops through our sacred soil, her peelers interfere with our after-dinner reveries, her people crowd our conveyances to Boston, her factories disgust us. Her mucker roams in freedom through our sacred yard, her maiden robs the freedom of the student's heart. The Port is of the nineteenth century, shoppy; we who feel - to use a vulgarism - the ancient and patrician oats of our two hundred and thirty-ninth year (Freshmen of the present year especially) will no longer bear the plebeian yoke...