Word: ancient
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London's Morning Post comments on the large number of new words of "America's queer coinage (which so often proves ancient currency disinterred)." E. g.- "Racket-a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action. 1812." "Skirt-A woman. Now vulgar slang, 1560.'' Unlike Sam Johnson, who occasionally winked (as when he defined "lexicographer" as "a harmless drudge") and who occasionally nodded into Latinic somnolence ("Network-anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"), editors of the S. O. E. D. are always serious but try hard...
Knowledge ladled out in spoon-fed doses, like the brimstone and treacle of Dotheboys Hall, is a thing of the past, but in certain history and sociology the evil influence of the ancient Trivium and Quadrivium remains. These atavistic tendencies are manifest, not in any narrowness or compulsion in the inculcation of ideas, but in the insulation from more than one view of the subjects studied, shown in the assignments of seventy-three pages in one book, one-hundred-and-ninety-nine in another, consecutively covering historical periods, perhaps of Tudor England, or of ante-bellum America. It is obvious...
...Step Lively," eighty-seventh annual production of the Hasty Pudding, is, from the standpoint of its musical strength, probably as fine as anything this ancient organization has ever exhibited before rows of happy patronesses. E. E. Stowell '34 and R. B. Moore '35 have the distinction of being amateur composers who have produced a score that not only sounds like something but has real swing and force to it. Shrewdly the directors of the production have realized this fact and little else in the way of plot, dialogue, or special acts has been attempted. Apparently any such additions would simply...
Beside listing every writer in English down to the present time, "The Oxford Companion" includes information about all authors, ancient or modern, that have in any way affected or influenced English literature, even those who might be alluded to. Under the name of each author a short account of his life and writings is given with special attention to dates; under the titles of particular works, there is a description of something of their contents and general nature. Summaries of the plots of important works of fiction--not long enough, to be sure, to keep Professors like Greenough from recommending...
...Seniors) is given for Juniors in May. The Senior year is devoted to the honors essay -- to which the committee on degrees attaches much weight -- and to work in special subjects in preparation for an oral examination. An examination is given in the Sophomore year on reading in the ancient authors and one is given in the Junior year on the Bible and Shakspere...