Word: laid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that society and class feeling are inevitably opposed to each other. But Harvard is less open to this evil than most colleges, and the class of '80 is less open to it than most classes. Therefore we hope that the little society feeling which does exist will be entirely laid aside during the class election. The idea that each society must be represented among the class officers by any definite number of men is absurd; and if such an idea is carried out in voting, the result will be a bad choice, or an in-harmonious election, - perhaps both...
...college course which brought him in contact with students of all classes, and the strict integrity of his character was well known throughout the University. He was an able scholar, having done two years' work in one and passed from the Sophomore to the Senior class. He had laid well the foundation of a useful life...
After you have seen him and laid him out, * all that remains for you is pleasant and profitable. You had better go to that amusing apothecary, Hubbard, whose droll advertisements you have read in the Lampoon, and take a glass of plain soda-water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...
...several "tragedies" in this little book appeared in the Lampoon a year ago, and are now republished by Mr. Sever. Mr. Grant's poems were far too good to be laid away in our piles of old college papers, and we welcome their reappearance in a more permanent form...
Already the swarthy Ethiops had prepared the feast; some had torn the skin from the ribs and laid the flesh bare; and others had placed the brazen caldrons and prepared the fires, and the hash was served...