Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...institutions of learning everywhere; to the common schools, that stand in our land as the sure defence against ignorance and oppression; to the sister states, those contemporaneous in foundation and in settlement, and those too, reared in later time, and established in peace and prosperity upon the virgin soil of our country. And more especially do we regard with tender but exalted veneration the union of the states of the mighty republic of America. [Applause...
...World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled it to the soil...
...editorial, a day or two ago, warning the freshman of just what has happened. They have capital material, but they played better the first week they were here, than they are doing now. This must stop at once. The team has been literally loafing,, and seems afraid to soil its new uniforms; they are dirty now, at any rate, and perhaps the play will improve in consequence. Ninety doesn't seem to realize that she has a game with Yale ahead of her at that, and only about three weeks distant, too. They urge in their defence, "Yes, but Sears...
...take place on this first Monday of the college year, and which marked a lower stage in the development of our mental and moral faculties; for we will not venture to suppose that the roots from which these ancient customs grew are still lying hidden in the college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding freshmen, or otherwise violently communicate with them, to the effect that on this eventful evening free drinks should be standing ready for the august members of the sophomore class...
...these lectures have been of great practical usefulness. The harmful effects which are produced by ignorance, and a lack of proper care for our physical well-being have been put before our eyes so forcibly that there can be no doubt but that the seed has fallen on fertile soil. The last lecture of the course promises to be of unusual interest, and the attendance to-night should be even larger than it has been in the past...