Word: chaff
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...into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures. These touches, which alone give worth to a sketch, show man as he is, and always has been. They are nothing but the grains of enduring truth taken out of the chaff of circumstances. And around every one of us is enough chaff worth winnowing...
...Chaff," and illustrated paper of the University of Pennsylvania, has ceased publication...
...Inasmuch as Harvard has accepted the Columbia challenge for the New London race, Chaff advises Pennsylvania to apply for admission to this contest, Columbia, having defeated us last summer and being the challenging party in this race, will have little to say in opposition; and it is impossible to see how Harvard, who pleads only the lack of money for refusing our challenge for a separate race, can consistently negative such an admission, in which the expenses will not be increased by so much as a penny,-if indeed they are not reduced by the receipts from the larger number...
...character of student life in the several colleges. Whatever may be one's outside opinion, however, once in his own college cheer of course will seem the best; and for example, to a Yale man all other college cheers can but appear but as poor parodies and weak chaff, as to a Harvard man, they appear as interesting types and pleasant follies. But of this we no doubt shall hear more anon...
...Chaff" thus reproves Columbia's waywardness in aquatic matters...