Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gentlemen and my very kind friends:- I feel not only honored but deeply moved by the letter you have been good enough to write me. During my long service in the University, my relations with the students were always agreeable, not seldom fruitful, to me, and in some good measure, I trust, to my pupils also. But in my experience as a teacher nothing ever gave me such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification...
...deserves support. We are sure that the class is grateful to the upper-classmen for their interest and help. The good wishes of the whole college will go with the freshmen eleven to New Haven, and we trust that the efforts of the upper-classmen may bear good fruit...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: True is the saying that a bad tree cannot but bear bad fruit, as is illustrated by the following case: Today occurs the final examination in History XV. Of the several books of reference used in that course, the most important one of all (and hence, the one most in demand last Friday and Saturday) could be found nowhere, Friday afternoon and Saturday forenoon. It was ascertained that the book had been taken out Friday evening, in the regular way, by a certain '88 man, and Saturday forenoon search was made throughout the reading-room...
...Union to their successors, nor will they admit the constitutionality of anything done at the meeting yesterday. As they have possession of the archives, the end of the interesting struggle seems not to be near by. The college will wait with feverish excitement for the outcome of the political fruit or job which is certain to make an appearance before many days. For the present no serious outbreak need be expected, and affairs will probably remain tranquil, with a chance that the contestants will not resort to violence until after the examinations...
...appealing to the other masters, especially as all these quarrels tended to have the opponents of the chapter and Chancellor repose in the chancellors' prison, or to be excommunicated? perhaps both. They appealed for a reverse of the the sentence of excommunication from master after master at last bore fruit. The Papacy was then following out its principles of intellectual emancipation from the rules of the old "regular" schools, and soon recognized the rights of these teachers' unions to corporate existence by permitting them to use a common seal, and to be represented by an attorney. This saved each excommunicated...