Word: callings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...call...
...content to call a leetle...
...arguments by which our young oligarch would betray the demos are not difficult to criticise. They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...
...prize for an intercollegiate rifle-match. From the columns of that journal we learn that many colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge, to be shot for among themselves: said design to be engraved and printed in this paper...
DANTE! they would call thee stern...