Word: staying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stay sweet moment of bliss...
...newspaper says Boston has a colored man named Yale College. When he shall have a large family, imagine Mrs. College standing on the front porch and yelling to her offspring : "Now, see heah, Dartmouf, how many times mus' yo' po' mudder tell you to frow dat badeball 'way an' stay in de house an' larn your A, B, C's? Cornell, quit dabblin' in dat watah, an' come heah dis instant. An' you, Vassar, yo' de worse nigger in de pack. Take dat chewin' gum out ob yo' mouf, or I'll choke yo, till yo're brack...
From harm our summer fancies stay...
...after dinner oratory. I was yesterday misled by his example to say that in case of a certain athletic event I should want to leave the banks of the river on which it should happen; but like the statesman of Massachusetts I have changed my mind. I shall stay by this river until Yale is Victorians, even if I remain a thousand and one years to come-and I fear that if Yale does not change that unfortunate stroke I shall be waiting here until the odd year arrives." After expressing the hope that the Harvard men would not paint...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Class after class graduates and leaves us, but there is one class of men who seem to stay with us in the most single-hearted fashion, who have made Harvard their permanent camping ground. Their numbers and influence increase year by year; they are a bane and a nuisance, and should be stamped out from the face of the globe. We refer to those wretched beings called "croakers." We are all familiar with and heartily sick of the man who said last fall that we were sure to be beaten by Princeton; who said this spring that...