Word: stream
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale, Harvard or Amherst enlarged to the size of Boston Common and the Public Garden, and place the 'campus' upon the steep slope of Holyoke or Mount Tom, intersect the region below with gorges and water-falls at every half-mile, and let these empty a perpetually cascading stream into Long Island Sound, and you will have some notion of the natural beauties and difficulties of Ithaca...
...stream, at anchor, are the various ships attached to the academy. Of these, the one of most interest is, perhaps, the "Santee," an old frigate, used as a place of confinement for those cadets who find academic law too Strict for their exuberant spirits. With regret it must be said that at present she has quite a full crew...
...again, but apparently to was little purpose for the evil temporariy checked, soon increases to its old proportions. Cannot the thoughtless who are guilty of this annoyance keep in mind that their action disconcerts the reader or lecturer, and draws away the attention of the audience? A constant stream of men coming late often mars the first fifteen or twenty minutes of these public meetings in Sever 11, for the hard floors and wooden chairs of that lecture room do not permit the late comer to take his seat in silence, unnoticed. Prompt attendance at a lecture is under...
...from Boston to see the games, such a delay was inexcusable. The next meeting will be attended by ladies who, even less than men, will care to remain through a long meeting if delays occur. Nothing breaks up the enjoyment of an entertainment so much as a constant stream of spectators leaving, one party after another, before the affair is over...
...word freedom has many meanings. When who say that a stream is not free to flow because it is frozen, we do not speak of the same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean...