Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...responsible to Congress? 2. Is Tennyson's poetry likely to survive its own times? 3. Should the personal provisions of testators be respected? 4. Which has more influence on a nation's development, its great men, the original character of its race, or the peculiar circumstances of its climate, soil, and geographical situation...
...examination of the programme confirms us in the conclusion that Harvard was wise in refusing to join the Association; if we may complacently say so, every advantage that the contest can give may be obtained without leaving the soil of Cambridge. In place of the essays and the oratory we have the Bowdoin and Boylston prizes, and in place of the examinations of the I. C. L., the examinations for honors...
...which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing up a drain, or mutilating and stealing College property, show first an absence of appreciation of what constitutes gentlemanly conduct, and second, a disposition to return to the boyish and rowdy habits which have been almost wholly uprooted from our soil...
...band of stringed instruments, prayer by the class-chaplain followed, and then the orator was introduced. His theme was the connection between education and agriculture, and he proved conclusively, to himself at least, that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished to have it clearly understood that while some more...
Before concluding, I must walk on more dangerous ground; dangerous both from the nature of the soil and the scantiness of my information. To what extent the men use such appliances as rowing-weights, I am ignorant. For exceptional cases these weights may be essential, but I have grave doubts as to their universal application. It seems to me that the effects of such galley-slave work, eliminating, as it does, all that is agreeable in rowing, must be depressing, - a result to be deplored, seeing that the spirits of a crew should be raised by all legitimate means...