Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barrett suggested in the Union Debate of last week that the club offer good food cheaply; would have it a sort of etherealized Merrill's, as it were, an Eden instead of the Trees of Life and Knowledge, the Holly Tree should flourish unforbidden. Others would have it a meeting place for strangers, such as Massachusetts was turned into during the celebration, as a smoking-room or a reading-room, all these combined. Also, every proposition ended in a storm of "buts" - as they all began with...
...publish in another column a communication from the president of the Abstinence League which is worthy of the attention of all who are interested in advancing the interest of temperance among their fellows. It is highly desirable that such an organization as this shall flourish here, and every effort ought to be made that its work shall be of value to the students. It has been shown that an exclusive society having such an end as that now proposed in view, cannot exert great influence upon the student body. The most profitable work will be found in just such meetings...
...Pharasaical "Ah, ha!" Papers of which the past existence and actions had been anything but religious, caught the infection and sneered at that of which they knew nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends...
...Fitchburg Glee Club, which last year dragged through a precarious existence, has been started again, and bids fair to flourish vigorously this year...
...Columbia Veterinary College has, as we early predicted it would, closed its doors in the middle of a session. This institution began its career in 1880. It made quite a flourish, and soon succeeded in getting a respectable class in point of numbers; but if the facts were known its whole course would be shown to have been marked by continual discord. This feature has no doubt played a prominent part in bringing about its final collapse, which turned out of doors in the neighborhood of forty students who had paid their money for that which they will never...