Word: tree
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...breeze-blown bough of a mountain tree...
...words for the purpose of rectifying an abuse to which our attention was called some time ago, and which has been rapidly increasing within the past few weeks. Quite a number of the students who frequent the Reading-Room have shown their eagerness to pluck the fruit of the tree of knowledge by cutting from magazines and papers whatever has appeared to them as useful information, or has simply struck their fancy...
...will be great men, but almost all will have descendants, either of our own or of our near relatives, to whom an account of our early lives will be of great interest, and the genealogies may supply many a break made by the loss of the "family tree" or "family Bible," in its passage from hand to hand. Nor is the use of our autobiographies limited to our own race; the Triennial Catalogue, Lives of Harvard Graduates, and other publications must draw their matter largely from these pages. Sometimes a false modesty may deter a man from answering the questions...
...love of animals in many boys; but the colt of that name is made to perform prodigies which will puzzle the experience of country-bred youths. The book appears at an opportune time of the year, and should be found in every child's stocking and on every Christmas-tree. It is printed in large type, on good paper, attractively bound, and costs...
...article appeared in the last Magenta entitled "Cant," expressing, I hope, the views of but a very small portion of the class. The question first discussed, of abolishing the custom of dancing around the tree, being one of personal opinion, I will only observe that it is strictly in keeping with the iconoclastic spirit of '75. It is the suggestion of doing away with the chaplaincy that I would decry...