Word: rural
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics to adopt such reforms to suit her own needs and then arrive at a satisfactory convention with Yale and Brown by which inter-collegiate athletics can be continued at these colleges under reasonable restrictions, and all this without entering into the new agreement with Harvard and the rural colleges. In this event we see no outcome for Harvard but the total destruction of inter-collegiate sports. But this result would not perhaps be looked upon altogether as an evil by those in power. We cannot but think that the accession of Princeton, Brown and Columbia at least...
...manifest destiny of its geographical position, and is becoming a mere suburb and dependency of Boston. It seems probable that its founders in selecting a site for the university were influenced in the belief that in Cambridge, or New Town, they had hit upon a most excellent place of rural retirement; far enough removed from the temptations of the larger city of Boston for safety, and yet near enough for convenience. Alas, that the mutations of time should have deceived the hopes of these worthy gentlemen! For it cannot be doubted that Harvard has become essentially a city university...
...that our publication's familiarly called the "Girl"-I don't exactly see whether our "Gul" was transformed to the remarkable "Girl" through your near-sightedness or perhaps ignorance of orthography, or whether one of those proof-reading feinds who are so common in rural printing establishments, and who in 9 words out of ten substitute one of their own, occupies a prominent place on your board...
...forenoon, as then the vital energy is at its height and more work can be done, both physical and mental. The next best time for exercising is the afternoon, from four to six, and the worst time of all, the early morning before breakfast. The custom in the rural districts of rising about four A. M. and working several hours before breakfast, especially when but a light supper is taken the night before, is, in the doctor's opinion, simply barbarous, as the body is in the very worst condition possible. During his college course...
...remains of Thurlow Weed lay in state in St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Albany, N. Y., for several hours on Saturday, and were afterwards interred in the Rural Cemetery...