Word: america
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman societies. The factions often came to blows over the merits of rival instructors, but the most serious rows were between town and gown, - for the students of "the fair metropolis of the world of mind" then strove with as much eagerness as the students of the metropolis of America now strive to make their occupation known by the distinctive academic dress...
...Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having a magnificent view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable advantage of inhaling the pure, moral, and intellectual ether of the Athens of America; its Senior class disporting itself in the salons of an ex-governor and an eminent lecturer, and enjoying the society of three deans, two professors, and an authoress, - when such a university feels a just pride in its advantages, and mentions them frequently in its journal, the malignant rival whose...
...first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of making the a too broad, the o too confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard...
...judges and examiners, and of a number of honorary members, not exceeding twelve at any one time, chosen by the Fellows because of eminence in literature, science, or philosophy. Some college papers seem to see in this Board of Regents the seed of an institution which shall be to America what the London University is to England, and one enraptured journal talks about a grand national University, "where all the sisterhood of colleges shall be united into one." Surely it would be a pleasant sight to see America's thousands of students flocking to some city in order...
WENDELL PHILLIPS, so the Student informs us, has been lecturing at Amherst under the auspices of the Base Ball Association; and the charges for the hall were "the same as those made to any dramatic company which 'gives an entertainment' in the 'Parthenon of America...