Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nature and purpose of this book are very well indicated by the full title, which runs as follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven...
...article in the Brunonian complains of the poor treatment of the Brown Freshman Nine at Yale. It seems that although the Yale men undertook to pay the expenses of advertising for the Brown Nine, when it came to the point they positively refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable...
...work of his life, he had thoroughly devoted himself to it, making all his studies tend to that end. He had a mind extremely quick to receive and originate ideas, an untiring industry, a ready and decided judgment; his progress, therefore, in this, as in all that he undertook, was of the most thorough and promising kind. But conspicuous as he was for mental ability, it is in the private relations of friendship that his loss will be most felt. His friends will miss one who was warm-hearted, loyal, and generous to a fault; one whose character, far above...
...member of that class purchased a book, in which he wrote out brief accounts of his fellows. This became more or less a habit, and the Class-Book of 1806 has now been returned to the Library, on the death of the last member of that class. Later, men undertook to write out their own lives, but, not knowing what to put down, they often ran off into stories of college scrapes and nonsense, that the sober sense of ten years later impelled them to cut out and destroy. After this, Mr. Sibley, to whom we really owe the reform...
...scientific labors since his arrival in this country is wellnigh impossible: he was always ready to lecture, sent valuable contributions to magazines, read instructive papers before scientific associations, was busy in the laboratory, observed and tried to solve the secrets of nature, gathered an immense store of specimens, undertook the publication of works requiring an almost incredible amount of labor for completion, and, in short, attempted more work than ten ordinary men could accomplish. Among his published works may be mentioned "Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology," "Systeme Glaceale," "Lake Superior," "The Structure of Animal Life," "A Journey to Brazil," "Methods...