Word: causticity
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...Harvard Magazine in 1864--were literary magazines, each short-lived. With the appearance, on March 9, 1866, of the first number of the Collegian--a fortnightly "newspaper intended to represent the views and opinions of Harvard students"--began the present era of University journalism. The Collegian was outspoken and caustic in tone. It deplored the "little disposition manifested by the instructors to establish and confirm a friendship between the student and themselves"; it attacked with keen satire compulsory church attendance on Sunday and the system of compulsory chapel. After its third issue the Collegian was suppressed by the Faculty...
...most respects, yet the present rate of growth of purely chemical industries in America promises well for the future. In particular the cheap production of electrical energy at Niagara Falls has made possible the founding of a large group of electro-chemical processes, in which such substances as caustic soda, chlorine, aluminum, carborundum and graphite are produced in large quantities...
...report is as follows: RECEIPTS. Advertisements. $820.00 Subscriptions at $1.00. 370.00 Sales at $1.50 less 20 per cent, 28.80 Total receipts, $1218.80 EXPENDITURES. Printing, Caustic-Claflin Co., $500.00 Engraving, 170.50 Photography, 43.75 Typewriting, 15.15 Union Membership (Prize), 10.00 Posters, 3.50 Postage and Incidentals, 10.00 Total expenditures, $752.90 Total Receipts, $1218.80 Total Expenditures, 752.90 Balance...
...Owen Johnson of Yale was pressagent for Mr. Dink Stover at Lawrenceville; Mr. Stover is now taking a swift trip through Mr. Johnson's alma mater, and is the foil for caustic arraignment of undergraduate ignorance. It was so heated that many gentlemen of college extraction took exception to it, and recently the "Sun" interviewed him. Mr. Johnson reiterated wildly and at some length that he was right; that the general ignorance and utter lack of acquaintance with culture of the average American undergraduate was almost tragic. He waved his arms, and said he believed, apropos of the time-honored...
...begins. Every character misunderstands every other character, a series of cross purposes ensue and for hours surprise treads upon the heels of surprise while the audience is convulsed with merrment. Mr. Seabrook's comic art has full opportunity to display itself. He experiences all sorts of moods. He is caustic and severe, petulant and irritable, ironically jocose, fiendishly satrical and withal, excruciatingly funny...