Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suffer either a close, shiftin atmosphere or to endure such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with a bad cold or a sore throat. Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house two days last week as a direct result of his zeal in trying to find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there...
...religion is for all. Let each one speculate as he likes. The kingdom of heaven has twelve gates, and every gate is a pearl. It matters not through which gate you pass. Your Sunday school teacher may enter through one, your friend through another. Do not stay out yourself because you cannot enter in the same gate with them. Act as Christians. Associate learning with doing and not alone with thinking. The true Christian religion consists in acting as you think Christ would eat if he were in your place...
...passing away. The associates that a young man has while at Harvard are now, in most instances, the friends that he made while at the preparatory schools, such, for example, as the Boston Latin School and Roxbury Latin school, St. Paul's, Phillips Academy, etc., and after four years' stay at Cambridge there may be quite a number of his own class with whom he has not even a speaking acquaintance. This is altogether different from the fraternal spirit that used to pervade all of the classes at Harvard a generation or more ago, and is much nearer approximation...
Another thing. Let no man stay away on account of the natural shy reserve which has been so noticeable in the last three or four freshman classes...
...proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely to turn up at any moment at Washington or some more distant place. He was a self-announced candidate for President of the United States in every campaign, and would argue about his chances with unbounded confidence. When told one day in 1876 that an article...