Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Oxford and Cambridge have recently had Athletic sports. The time made was as a whole not superior to ours; but the account in the Under-graduates' Journal is so full of typographical errors that it is hardly safe to trust the record. At Lincoln College, Oxford, the best thing was the 150 yard handicap race, which was won in 14 2/5 sec. The high jump was singularly bad, - 4 ft. 7 inches. At Exeter College a half-mile race won in 2 min. 3/5 sec. was the only thing deserving notice...
...Caius College, Cambridge, the high jump, 5 ft. 4 in., was the best thing. The hundred-yard race occupied 11 sec. At Christ's the hundred-yard was run in 10 3/5 sec., and the 150-yard handicap...
...have one thing to be devoutly thankful for, - my room has not been swept this fall. O, how I look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which...
...perceive, in the organ of a New England college, indications of a change for the worse. In a brand-new Western institution, where boorish boys and silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper-colored predecessors used to be huddled in their wigwams, such a thing might be pardonable. But in a college as old, as honored, and as Eastern as Bowdoin, the sense of the dignity of the name which Alma Mater gives them should restrain the students who are inclined to indulge in such unseemly amusements...
...thought, a loftiness of aim, that is bred of the highest intelligence and uprightness. We cannot expect the crowd of false opinions and ungrounded rumors that ordinarily pass unchallenged to breathe this rarefied atmosphere. If we set our ideal among the stars, we must be content to find most things falling under the ban. It is precisely this species of writing, of all others, that awakens readers from mental sloth, and it is inconceivable that such a thing as indifference should be quoted as its legitimate result...