Word: bond
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale infamous." At the present time, there is less hostile feeling between different societies at Harvard, considering its size, than at any other college in America! Such a club as the one proposed would not tend to promote sociability among the students, because it would not constitute a common bond of sympathy or interest. Men of different tastes and social position cannot be induced to mingle with each other by any such means. This is a difficulty which cannot be obviated. The great cost of the undertaking, and the correspondingly high fees, would tend to keep many students from joining...
Information for History 3: "A man out west has been postmaster for nearly a year, and yet knew nothing of his appointment till the other day, when he was ordered to fill out and return bond sent him last evening." - Advertiser...
...democratic, more common and less exclusive. If such destruction is the germ of the plan under agitation, the plan cannot but fail. For it is absurd in a high degree to imagine that men will substitute for ties which are formed through interests absolutely fundamental in life, one great bond which overlooks distinctions of personality, and must therefore fall far short of attracting individual men with distinct and very often antagonistic tastes. Thus then, there will exist by the side of the club proposed all the social interests now existing. It requires no argument to show which...
...cent, and it is still falling. The corporation have avoided debt, maintained and improved their buildings out of income, adhered to the low valuation of their old stocks, reduced the valuation of unimproved lands, put in operation a method of sinking railroad bond premiums, and preserved a prudent distribution of the property among the various kinds of secure investments...
Jamaicas. rushers, Hopkins. Stickney, Bond, Weld, Woodman, Parker, Fiske; quarter-back, Frothingham; half-backs, Peters, Wendell; full-back, Dalton...