Word: forth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college yard night and day, and it is certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling over the higher electives, to be interrupted by piercing screams or intermittent warblings from unknown...
...Goethe enthusiast; and he was also-a fact that was familiar to the students-enamored with the lady who has since become his wife, and who was the daughter of a New York banker. The professor's voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never poured forth in greater volume than when he said in one of his lectures: "About this time Goethe fell in love with a rich banker's daughter in New York city." There was a roar from the students, while boots and canes rattled upon the floor like an avalanche of cobble stones...
...this influence exercised solely upon the artists of the illustrated paper. The many other men who take these courses become better acquainted with what is good in these bi-weekly issues, and they are less likely to commend poor work, thus stimulating the student artists to put forth their best work on all occasions...
...discusses the hereditary effects of education, its relation to the state, its connection with religion, and the different kinds of educators. The book is written after the scientific method, and its positions on all points are supported by ample citations from leading authors. The author designs to put forth two more books, one on anthropology and the other on pedagogy...
...College, founded by the renowned Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, has the largest number of students on its books, but is seldom called a college, its name among the fellows being "The House," derived from its Latin name Aedes Christi. This college is renowned for the statesmen it has sent forth upon their career. Among the older graduates are such names as Godolphin, Bolingbroke, Mansfield, Locke, Ben Johnson and Sir Philip Sydney, while the modern names of Peel, Canning and Gladstone keep up the reputation of the college. Christ Church Hall with its lofty roof of Irish oak and armorial bearings...