Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every day she sits down by the river side and scrapes herself with the rough potsherds of disease and violence. Hence the need of a Morgue. Here is brought the man who slipped while working on the quai, and fell in and was drowned. Hither comes the remnant of the drunken sot who reeled from the bridge at midnight and went down with a sullen plunge into the cold, dark waters which rush beneath the granite arches. This man was lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture...
...three a throng of professors, students and civilians began to crowd through the doors and fill up the seats of Saunder's Theatre. Many ladies also were present, among whom the thoughtful faces of our Annex maidens might easily be perceived, who had come forth from that sole remnant of antiquity which Cambridge can boast of-the Appian Way-to aid in applauding the unveiling of the new statue of John Harvard, the founder. Punctually at three o'clock the stage of the theatre began to be filled with those who were to take an active part in the unveiling...
...Forensic work. The department begins the year with a complete change in man and methods. The changes in methods are not final, however, and the instructors look to still further changes if those of this year prove successful. The majority of the students, we know, look upon this last remnant of required work as a nuisance, and give it as little time and thought as possible. Still, there are many who realize that forensic work is perhaps the most practically important work, and the work bearing most directly on their success in life, that they do while in college...
...unit. Now it is impossible that there are not a great number in every class that are decidedly opposed to the "dependent" Independent movement in the present campaign. It would, therefore, seem very unjust to such persons, as well as an absolute deception practised on the public, for the remnant of the class to join in any procession to the honor of Cleveland as though it represented the junior class of Harvard College. We have no objection to seeing as many juniors as seem so inclined joining in the proposed procession, but we do decidedly object to having such persons...
...conspicuous men of science there are; the other universities are content with luminaries of the second rank; the intermediate schools feed on half-culture, and the elementary schools on the wisdom of drill-sergeants. Thus the boy enters the university with mere scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better than his own wretched one. And the boy is morally as badly equipped as pecuniarily. Long ago the uneducated and soft-hearted father lost...