Word: star
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would like to have your noine come and play the Star of Blackinton...
...eminent sphere and her mariner's star...
...Women are now admitted to all the privileges of Harvard College. Eastward the star of education takes its way. Kansas, from the first, founded her university on the better-half theory. . . . . We are almost at a loss to understand why it is that in these latter days Harvard College has fallen heir to so many adverse criticisms, not from its enemies alone, but from its friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been...
...night a star in falling...
...novel-readers are willing to pass"; and then he paints quite a vivid picture, which I think the fair Bostonian novel-reader would hardly recognize as herself: "A weary, distressed, bewildered voyager amid the billows of affliction, she looks around her in vain to find a pilot, a pole-star, or a shore...