Word: waits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wait, but in vain, faithless Ocean...
...mean to say that there is anything improper in an undergraduate's appearing at a graduate's "festive board," or in their honoring together their common mother from the graduate's "flowing bowl," but the undergraduate should wait for an invitation and not intrude unbidden upon the company of his elders...
...they fail to make the university. If we could offer here the means of living to a score or two of graduates each year, we should have almost the last requirement toward making Harvard a university in the sense that Cambridge and Oxford are universities. But we must wait until those who leave money to found colleges discover that their money would do more good by increasing the usefulness of institutions already established, than by adding another name to the list of mushroom colleges with which the country abounds...
...recently voted to pay a considerable sum for the purpose at once, and that nevertheless money does not pour into the treasury with increased rapidity. The students of Dartmouth evidently imagine that the word of the ordinary college student is as good as gold. It may be - if you wait long enough. But what with limited allowances and hard times, they may consider themselves lucky if the crew is not obliged to sell their boat to pay their debts...
...These men are good and true. They are the bone and sinew of our people. In them is found that grand American intellect which, unlike the faltering mind of the tyrant-ridden European, perceives the truth and will not wait to hear it disputed. In them is found that noble energy which advances the cause of truth when truth is once perceived, which turns a deaf ear to the sophistical arguments of unprincipled supporters of a state of things which the progress of the modern world has at last made unendurable, and which, having attained one great end, does...