Word: using
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when and where is there any such sacrifice of youthful health to the genius of intellectual industry? . . . . Why does not some one talk complainingly and clamorously of college students, about their irregular hours of eating and sleeping, their continual closeting of themselves in ill-ventilated rooms, their almost universal use of narcotics, their frequent want of any inspiring aim, and their abounding mental slothfulness...
...boats during the race; to build a Grand Stand at the finish, for which the price of admission shall not be more than fifty cents; to furnish a steamer to follow the race, whose speed shall be at least fourteen miles an hour, and which shall be ready for use, and at the service of the Regatta Committee, four days before the 30th of June; to build a boat-house, with float for each crew, at such places as they shall designate, each building to be sixty-five feet long by twelve feet broad, and high enough...
...long as our guests are confined to the friends of the students, there seems to be no real objection to their coming to look at us from the distant gallery, even though they may see fit to use an opera-glass; but, unfortunately, the strangers out-number the friends, and far too large a number of objectionable characters find their way into the Hall...
...Harvard were great riders; we frequently hear of their taking a trot. They had large families, if we may judge from their extensive use of cribs, to the importation of which the government seems to have had an unaccountable aversion; penalty for using them was often capital punishment. They were enthusiastic patrons of the Fine Arts, often expending large sums on busts, none of which, however, have lasted until...
...this town was as curious as its existence. The government passed a law that all the men should get up at twenty minutes past four A. M., and assemble at the "Chapel"; there every man was required, under penalty of twenty-four marks, (was the whipping-post still in use?) within fifteen minutes, to write and hand in "a theme and forensic." We are ignorant of the reasons for this most extraordinary enactment; it looks like wanton oppression. Neither are we informed as to the nature of the "theme and forensic...