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Word: characterizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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In this new civilization a stranger is surprised to find so many women given up to dress-reform and pre-Raphaelite poetry; it is generally supposed that in America there is so much to be done, so much boiling and bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 4/17/1882 | See Source »

EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: One more suggestion in regard to Memorial, if the subject is not exhausted: Many have been the complaints about the unpleasant surroundings at the late breakfast table. Every time a man is unfortunate enough to sleep past nine o'clock, he is obliged to breakfast amidst sweepings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1882 | See Source »

The "hazing" affair at Trinity College, if correctly reported, does seem to have altogether overstepped the bounds of fairness, not to say of humanity. Such actions can be called nothing less than brutal; and the sooner the college press states in plain terms the character of the deed, and its...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/12/1882 | See Source »

But I do not recognize for an instant the possibility of such an occurrence as a case of intoxication being seen at the hall. The character of Harvard men is too well known to even admit of such a thought. It would be useless for me to reiterate the arguments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1882 | See Source »

It is unfortunate that the Longfellow memorial exercises last Sunday afternoon in Appleton Chapel should have been so disappointing and unsatisfactory in their arrangements. It had been thought that the memory of our nation's poet and Cambridge's greatest citizen would make this a befitting occasion for the expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/28/1882 | See Source »

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