Word: earning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with howls of derision by the upperclassmen. This song leads to others, and long after the darkness has shut down on the city, the freshmen remain seated on their cherished fence, discoursing sweet music, till the hour arrives for going to the freshman banquet. Such is the reward they earn for defeating a Harvard team; may the next freshman class be forced to relinquish their fence and their laurels to Harvard...
...Plymouth on board the Stamford, was severely injured in the collision of the boat with another steamer. Her spine was seriously affected, and for two months, she was utterly helpless, and she is now a delicate invalid with no immediate, if even a distant prospect of being able to earn her living, and support her children...
...this advantageous position, i. e., they were unable to score. Moreover, when the ball approached their own end of the field the play of our team was usually very unsteady, and such unsteadiness, aided in that particular game by decisions of the referee, cost us the game. We must earn to score and in all future practice and all games hereafter particular attention ought to be given by the university eleven to this most important feature of the game. Loosing the ball after it has been carried close up to the opposite goal line, or making a careless punt...
...Chauncey M. Depew told the Yale alumni at their dinner in New York, recently, that there were 3000 college graduates in that city who could not earn a living...
Miss Mary Dickens, grand-daughter of the novelist has gone on the stage to earn her livelihood...