Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attached a series of stone tablets on which these various interesting reminiscences should be engraved in letters at least half an inch in length, so as to be plainly legible in all this part of the State. But as the tree has no such historic merits on which to stand, it seems eminently proper that for the general improvement in the appearance of the Yard the obnoxious beech should at least be trimmed, and deprived of its lower branches, if not of all that portion of its growth which displays itself above ground...
...have let his story stand. I am surprised to find how clear it is; how grave a case, indeed, he has made out against me. For so "the gods make mock at us," as he himself has said...
...instructor at least one day before the examination. We know of no reason for requiring the students to furnish the examination-books other than that arising from the aggregate expense (some $600 or $700, at retail rates), which would otherwise fall upon the College. Whether Harvard is able to stand an extra annual expense of $600, the Corporation knows better than we. We would suggest, however, that in case the Corporation do not feel justified in making this expenditure, the required number of blue-books should be purchased by the College, and a suitable extra charge be made...
...instructor finds the traditional system as a skeleton for which the flesh and blood is supplied from both his experience and the spirit of the times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments; and any thing like a system is adopted only after he has had a course...
...with the men who had in previous years collected money from the graduates, and see if the money could not in some way be raised this year for new quarters. The graduates consulted deemed it inexpedient to try to raise the money this year. Then Harvard requested Yale to stand out with her, and to compel the local committee to furnish quarters for Harvard. This was done because the New Londoners believed that Yale had the right to name the place for the race this year, and that she would name New London, and that then Harvard would be compelled...