Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being the commodities offered in exchange for education...
...women will think more about each other in a morbid way and there will be more attempts at clandestine correspondence and flirtation, than if they met each other every day naturally and simply in the class-room under the eye of the professors, and without the attraction of forbidden fruit...
August 29: My pupills all came to me ys day to desire vy might ceas learning Hebrew; I withstood it with all ye reaso I could, yet all will not satisfy ym. Thus am I requited for my love; & thus little fruit of all my prayers bears for yr good...
...conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, grain, oxen, cows, sheep," or even boots and shoes in the clean pages of his account book...
...like to say a few words to eighty-nine on the eve of the game with the Yale freshmen. In another column we publish a communication from a member of the class, which should be read by every man of eighty-nine, and which we trust will bear good fruit. The freshmen should be ashamed that such a complaint should be necessary to stir up those who, either from sheer laziness or from meanness, refuse to do everything in their power to bring victory to the nine. At least the freshmen should feel bound to make as good a showing...