Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...science, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, bachelor of science in mining and metallurgy, engineer of mines and metallurgist, electrical engineer and analytical chemist, besides higher degrees of M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. In presence of such a collection of high-sounding names, a modest Harvard man stands aghast until he remembers that their value must be taken with a grain of salt.- Cambridge Tribune...
...thing there can be no doubt. While other colleges stand aghast at Harvard innovations, while presidents of the McCosh school raise their voices in tones of pious horror, and a great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...
...Harvard. We enter the Browning room. There is an Amherst man over there. We stare at him. He becomes confused, but our further triumph is cut short by the questions of the fair ones. "Do you have rooms like this at Harvard?" "Oh, yes," we reply, as we gaze aghast at the oil paintings, damask curtains, satin upholstery, and statuary that surround us. Here a suppressed sneer is heard and we at once move out into the corridor. We go to the library, a wilderness of black walnut shelves, glass doors, carved tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds...
...moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which shall seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such a programme of literary diversion. And then the editors, speaking through the young Edward Everett, say out bravely and patriotically (this was in July, 1810): "The foreign transactions of the last four years. nay, the last three months, the confiscation of American shipping in the ports of the continent...