Word: lots
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FANCY store in Boston advertises a choice lot of snow-shoes...
...Themes would then come at two, and the first recitation would be at three. We should then have the same interval after dinner as we do at present, and few, we are convinced, think that the time allowed is too short. Themes and Forensics do not fall to the lot of individuals more than once a week, on the average, and the time until three would be amply sufficient for the customary smoke or after-dinner nap. The proposed plan would leave the hour from five to six for exercise in the Gymnasium or for walking, and, what is more...
...they proceed to describe the spotless neatness with which the students' rooms are kept by the sweet-scented sylphs of Cambridge. Finally, they return to themselves, and close with a prayer for cleanliness, tidiness, and women servants. We sincerely hope that they may soon have all these. Their present lot is hard indeed. We can pity, though we can hardly realize, the sad, solitary, and savage lives that they drag on, unbrightened by the smiles and uncheered by the refining presence of chambermaids. This article renders us sensible of our own blessings. We thank goodness for our goodies...
...green tables and the clicking balls. If by any odd chance he is asked to join in the game, he readily accepts, and the manner in which he handles his cue is ample proof of years of diligent practice. The duty of paying rarely falls to his lot. With the extraordinary effigies which adorn modern playing-cards he is exceedingly familiar, and it is noticed that his hand in poker is not infrequently of a pictorial character...
...forthcoming work, "The History of Harvard College." In another column will be found an interesting selection from it, in relation to prayers, from which those of us who attend the matins of to day may gather, at least, a grain of comfort in the fact that our lot is luxurious when compared to that of our grandfathers...