Word: planted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has presented Cornell University with a complete electric light plant...
...room considered it necessary that he should move his feet at least twenty times. There are nearly two hundred men in the course, and a little computation will show that this movement occasions no little confusion. Let all the members of Political Economy IV, therefore, be very studious to plant their feet once for all, that the students in the corners of the room may catch at least a portion of the lecture...
...effect lessened by no attempt at any concealment of their hideous nudity. As we rise with a sigh because the field cannot be entirely beautiful after all, we breathe a wish that our landscape gardner would only train a little ivy up the north end of that building, or plant a few young elms in front of it, that its Puritan severity may be a little softened for future generations...
...came here I met with many sentiments suggestive of criticism that we were making too many changes in the management of the college. There seemed to be a feeling that we were doing too much in the way of changes even as regards improvements. If there is a perennial plant in this world it is the Harvard boy, and he will not submit to changes unless they are gradual. To reform the manners of the students we must reform the manners of the overseers. Another line of criticism among undergraduates has been about the choice of studies as being novel...
...weather. For years the college press has clamored for the use of the library at night, and one of the professors has shown that by lighting the library, gymnasium, and Memorial Hall with electricity, the college would save enough to repay in a few years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such...