Word: pay
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...first conveyed to the students by the touching words which fell from the lips of our Chaplain. The depression of spirits which has overspread society in consequence of this event comes with peculiar force upon the College with which he was connected. It needs an eloquent pen to pay a fitting tribute to Agassiz, and it is impossible in these moments of general grief to assign him the place among the world's great naturalists which the future will give him. The last sad rites have been paid, and there is a vacancy to be filled in the halls...
Surely this would not be a large price for a wealthy college to pay for so great a convenience. The walk could be easily kept in repair, and would save many future classes, as well as the present ones, from wet feet, muddy boots and clothes, and soured tempers...
...Glee Club; they sang, and very impressively, Cherubini's Pie Jesu, and a hymn for which the music was composed by Mr. Paine. In the seats reserved for the family and friends there were many distinguished men, who had come from distant parts of the country to pay the tribute of their presence to the memory of Agassiz. At the conclusion of the short and simple service, the body was carried to Mount Auburn, where a burial service was read by Dr. Peabody. The number of people in the Chapel was very great; but, owing to the good arrangements...
Unluckily, one finds no incentive, from his own circumstances, to pay any regard to what the rest of mankind is doing, or to make himself acquainted with the general news...
Once upon a time the bright thought came into the heads of the assessors in Amherst, that there were plenty of young men in college there who were twenty-one or over, and if they could only get these to pay a poll-tax, it would be so much extra money in the town treasury. The tax-bills were made out accordingly, and sent around to the students. All were surprised, and some, in their surprise, paid the bills. When next the farmers, "in town-meeting assembled," undertook to legislate for the town, they were in their turn surprised...