Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petitions of rival horse-railroad companies are now before the citizens of Cambridge: One, that of the Union Railroad Company, stating that its patrons are perfectly satisfied with the existing accommodation; the other, that of the future Charles River Railroad. Company, petitioning the legislature for a location on different streets, and also for the right of way over the tracks of the Union Company from the Lower Port to Boston. The Union Company have furnished every conductor with a copy of the petition, which he is obliged to present to every patron of the road for signature. None...
...HERALD: It is a cold, disagreeable day here, and I cannot help being glad I am not at Wellesley, for it is doubly dismal there on a rainy day. Everything is shrouded and dull, and lessons seem to go wrong. Since the death of Mr. Durant, founder and munificent patron of the college, we have had quite a change in the management of affairs. A long vacation was voted the president, and our professor of history was made vice-president, and is becoming very popular among the students. Some time ago a party of Harvard men came to Wellesley...
...matter of spirituous imbibition, you must concede that the New Haven students are infinitely worse than we are. W(h)y, a-l-e is the very name their college goes by wherever it is known; and porter is the fountain of their life, their stay, their prop, their patron deity...
...Daily Echo. It is certainly deserved, if for nothing else than the marked improvement in the tone of the paper on that of the last College year. That so many typographical errors creep into its columns must be ascribed, we suppose, to the great unknown, who is considered the patron saint of printers. These blunders, however, though the cause of much false information among its readers, tend also to keep them merry during breakfast. And thus, blundering or not blundering, the Echo has reason to feel gratified at the favor it finds among students...