Word: cant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...received none--among them a member of last year's 'Varsity crew, the editors-in-chief of the College papers (some of whom spend more hours in working on College matters than almost any other undergraduates) and the members of the debating teams, about the encouragement of which we cant so much. Would the graduate manager maintain that the president of even the Lampoon had not a better right to ticket privileges than a substitute on the Freshman squad? I cannot see how he could, especially since it is known that Boston speculators have been selling tickets in the middle...
Among the Essays on Literature in this volume are: "A Keats Manuscript," "A World Outside of Science," "Lowell's Closing Years at Camrbidge," "Local Fiction," and "The Next Step in Journalism;" while under the caption of "Life," Colonel Higginson discusses, among other things: "The Cant of Cosmopolitanism," "Anglomania and Anglophobia," "International Marriages," "The Test of Talk," "Overclubableness," and "Living by the Church...
...better start could possibly have been made in the track athletic season than the enthusiastic meeting that was held in Lower Massachusetts last evening. The tone of the meeting was one which should banish the last remnant of that intolerable cant of "Harvard indifference." Harvard's record in track athletics is a splendid one, in spite of recent defeats, and the whole-hearted applause with which those who have helped to make that record were received last night showed that the men now in college upon whom the responsibility for keeping up the record rests, will do their duty...
...Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first...
...universities of Scotland, all Christian work has been arranged with reference to this outsider; and the first principle of all such work is the avoidance of cant, in any form whatever. More than this, it is a settled thing that no religious man shall interfere with the college amusements or with the college work. On the contrary, they try to interest the busiest men, with the feeling that these can do their work and yet find time to help their fellows. They never interfere with a student's creed; what they want in his life; and they have thus widened...