Word: went
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...content with these exertions, I elected Fine Arts, and here my trouble began. All went well for the first half, and though nothing definite has been heard from the Blue Book of the midyear, yet I rest under the firm conviction that the result was a good hundred. Then, too, Mr. Perkins's lectures must not be neglected, and judge how my feelings were gratified by a glowing eulogy of etching as the highest field of engraving. With what light steps did I attend the next lectures in my favorite elective! But "put not your trust in professors." What...
...cramming" had been enough to give them a momentary knowledge of their subjects; this knowledge they poured into their books as freely and as thoughtlessly as they would have poured water into a bowl, and their heads were left, as far as political science went, in a condition very like that of a pitcher which has been turned upside down...
...went ashore the first day upon our arrival. My first impression was not favorable. On entering the Plaza I observed two men coming across it from opposite directions; when they had approached within about six feet of each other, one produced a pistol, and-with a charming insouciance shot the other through the heart. Several gentlemen then appeared from the shops around, and congratulated the jovial sportsman on his good shooting, taking him into a cafe where they did not drink coffee on the lucus a non lucendo principle. The victim of this practical joke was removed about an hour...
...defeated two crews from Yale. At one time Harvard voted to adopt the color blue, but this seems never to have been carried into effect. Red or crimson was at first used, until four Harvard crews, bearing crimson, red, cherry, and magenta, raced at Cambridge, and the victorious crew went to Worcester to row Yale. As this crew wore magenta, the magenta was generally adopted...
...could put in print the peculiar and expressive "Ah," with eyebrow accompaniment, with which the average Harvard man would acknowledge the above compliment. The Student also says: "There are more students in college from Brooklyn, than from any other one place, except Amherst." This is easily explained. Beecher went to Amherst...