Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Week: The Hidden Life in Harvard...
During the summer the male toads stay in the water, and their peculiar note can be frequently heard. Nearly allied to the ordinary variety, is the solitary toad, which is seldom seen because it generally remains hidden under ground during the day time and only ventures out at night...
...Economics I in the Evans library, by tearing out the portions which had been assigned to the class to read. A great deal has been said in the past about the misuse of reserved books. Men have sometimes taken books out for use in their rooms, or hidden them in out of the way places in the library where no one else could discover them. But this is the most detestable example of selfishness that has yet come to light. We hope that every effort will be made to discover who is guilty of the offense and to inflict...
...that of a house like that occupied by the spirit in life and which was to be its permanent domicile. Among people who lived in caves, burial was made underground. Thus grew up the ideas of the nether world which are shown in the word hell, which means "the hidden." Some people buried their dead in mounds and barrows and some on hill-tops which were consequently believed to be peopled with spirits. Probably the latter custom was not without influence in forming the idea of a heaven above. A very prevalent belief was that of a migration...
...generally known that the library was supposed to contain at least two copies of this book and everybody wondered where the other copies were. Purely by accident, one of the students found a second copy on a chair, which was pushed under a bench so that the book was hidden from view. The placing of the book in this position was either a very remarkable coincidence or else it was a deliberate abuse of the privileges of the library on the part of some student for his own personal benefit. That it was the latter is almost certain...