Word: asses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...modern summer life. Mr. Corbin contributes a poem-"The Song of the Sea Shell-a mournful but pretty little song. "A Virgin Priestess," by Mr. Batchelder, is an original but rather startling Druid sketch. "A Parable" is very brightly written. We hope the Blue Hound and the Small Young Ass will appreciate its humor as well as its sarcasm. The last prose article is "Jerry's Consolation," by Mr. Wardner, a sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous vein, and is the best thing in the number. The verses, "What the Tower Says," contains...
...possible way this growing lethargy and indifference and, worse than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears to men outside of the college...
...tied by this fearful spectre of making a fool of ourselves. We have seen men who make it their peculiar business to circulate through the college, say nothing themselves, and as soon as they hear an opinion expressed by any one unite in one pitiful bray, "What an ass!" This is sometimes done by the voice, sometimes by pantomime. The two styles add variety to a pastime otherwise monotonous, and as disgusting as it is monotonous. If any of these peculiarly constructed individuals should chance to read this exhortation to those who possess independence, they would probably...
...usual audience gathered last evening in Appleton Chapel to hear Rev. George A. Gordon. He spoke from the text, I Samuel, ix, 3; and x, 1; Saul sought an ass, said the preacher, and found a kingdom. There is many a man who seeks a kingdom and finds an ass. I want to discourse the secret of the success of the one man and the failure of the other. Saul found a kingdom because he was in the line of duty. Faithful devotion to duty in the least things is the surest path to success in the greatest. This...
...point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June, 1613, and ill starred Frederick of Bohemia, with his bride Elizabeth, daughter of James of England, heads a stately train. "The tea-cup time of patch and hood...