Word: drive
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Some one's got to drive...
...that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...
...drive so fast, or we shall tip over again." So, nothing loath, I let the mare go her own gait. It took us a good half-hour to get home...
...summer morning, during this vacation, she announced that she must go to Bixby to do some shopping, and that I must drive her over. I had made different plans, but there was no appeal from her decision, and I obeyed. The only horse she would ride after was the bristly patriarch I have described, while the carriage she preferred was a huge old vehicle that my grandfather bought almost half a century ago. With this unique team we started for Bixby...
PROBABLY every one of us has received a violent blow in the face from those green doors at the entrance of University. Just as you are rushing in, some one coming out is sure to drive the door between your eyes, - the result of which action is to remind you of required Astronomy. Under ordinary circumstances one comes out under stronger incentive than one goes in, and this additional danger from those deadly doors is enough to discourage all attendance within the portals of University. The College might, at a trifling expense, put glass into the doors, and thus give...