Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that so much sameness is displayed in the furniture and general aspect of our College rooms? Is there so much similarity in men's tastes that they converge by some natural law towards red curtains, cheap prints (obtained we all know how), photographs of Soldene, Aimee, etc., etc.; or, is it merely because it is easier to fit up a room after the stereotyped pattern of one's neighbor's, than to exercise individual taste...
...temporary measure, because a healthier state of boating affairs would be shown rather by a change from sixes to eights than from sixes to fours, and we are not ready yet to give up in despair the hope of seeing our boating affairs assume a more prosperous aspect. The "Plain Facts" which we submitted to the notice of our readers in the last issue of the Crimson, should be carefully considered by those men who have rowed formerly and are not now candidates for the University crew...
...proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate into one "demmed horrid grind." We confess that the aspect of the picture seems to us threatening in the extreme. But let us struggle hard against this advancing tide of labor...
...themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired, but without which wisdom is belittled and its aspect made deplorable...
...event which struck terror into many a wavering heart. But the thought that Washington and the great American leaders have trodden here, that near its walls midnight parties have assembled, and in its sight friend and foe have marshalled, lend to it an interest beyond any admiration its foreign aspect and solitary picturesqueness can command...