Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomores will petition the Faculty to allow them to give out elections to the Freshman class; and the Lionia and brothers will probably be re-established...
...breathe, however much we might feel that the wise things the lecturer was saying were reaching our ears through a poisoned medium. Though an attempt was made on the part of Americans to admit the pure air, Professor Curtius was petitioned by the Germans to allow the windows to remain closed. In winter the case is still worse, and at the end of the hour the American student, who has been used to better things at home, rushes to the window to get a gasp of pure ether. Unhappy is the man who must sit in the same room...
...have been requested to ask the members of the Rifle Club to brace up and not allow the spring afternoons to go by without practice...
Coming fresh from the untutored wilds of the West, South, or that geographically uncertain and ever-receding location which goes under the non-committal name of "Down East," a slight touch of indigenous brogue in a Freshman is excusable - for three months or so. A generous critic might allow him a year to wear off such gaucherie. But how can the new-comer fail at once to notice the wide discrepancy between his pronunciation and that of educated people, if, of course, he be of ordinary intelligence? His only safe course is to turn to his Worcester and abide...
...although we are just as talkative as our ancestors, we don't reel off our speech all at once, for, if we did, we should be called bores; but we break it up into short sentences, and our conversation becomes spicy. And so the popular novelist does n't allow his characters' tongues to run away with them, but gives his pages an interesting look by sprinkling over them a profusion of quotation-marks. The average reader, on opening a new book, is always favorably impressed in proportion as the paragraphs are short, for from this he gathers an impression...