Word: rural
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Cleveland never attended a college of any kind. The acting vice-president, John Sherman, is a graduate of the common schools of Ohio. The secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, never got farther than a Delaware rural academy. The speaker of the House of Representatives, John G. Carlisle, is a self educated...
...muck over the entire yard, the odors arising from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural districts, and not for the encouragement of grass on gentlemens' lawns; we would also call his attention to the fact that there are many other fertilizers now in use which are not only effective, but also inoffensive. This state of the grass drives us to the sidewalks, and there what...
...soon we learn to discriminate between the honest maiden from the rural districts and that Cambridge girl who has not missed the "ring around the tree" for a dozen years. The Cambridge maiden has acquired a taste for college students as a Parisian for absinthe, and can be happy with anything from a sub-freshman to a Divinity student...
...days when he was young, when there was not a man living could throw him in the ring. When these rural sports were of a character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...
There is a strong feeling of indignation at Dartmouth College over certain statements in a recent article on that institution which appeared in the Manhattan Magazine. The situation, the buildings, and the students are described as not only rural, but shabby and almost coarse. The students defend their institution as one of the smaller colleges which has struggled bravely against poverty, has educated men who have taken prominent places in public and private life, and has inculcated and continues to teach sound learning and pure morality. The students whose rough exteriors have been referred to are often the most deserving...