Word: chief
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, have elected Mr. W. Richmond, Recording Secretary. At the annual meeting, the day after Commencement, the orator will probably be Charles Francis Adams, Sr.; the poet has not yet been fixed upon; the marshals, from the Junior Class, will be Mr. Richmond, chief, and Mr. Wigglesworth and Mr. C. F. Withington, assistants...
...class, "That Freshman," better than the average which are published in its columns, although open to much censure. The plot, of course, is not elaborate, and the characters are not so distinctly drawn as we could wish. Regarding the character of its sentiment, many different opinions are expressed. The chief fault, by no means an unusual one in such compositions, is the fact that the conversation is all carried on in a very stilted style. Two college men, one a Freshman, the other a Senior, ride home together from a party. Entirely unacquainted up to that evening, they indulge...
...meet these politic individuals in almost every walk of life, and are often astonished at their success; we see them amongst the mercantile classes, find them in congressional assemblies, note them amongst the aspirants after the chief places in societies and associations, Christian, scientific, or literary, and discover them, without the use of glasses, in our college halls. That which most astonishes us is the fact that those who thus court and attain popularity are not always the best or the most deserving of their fellows, and are apt to meet their own level when Time holds the microscope...
...same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five years he has been; nor are the students of Dublin sufficiently free from bigotry, or sufficiently under the influence of independent thought, to refrain from insulting the statesman by burning him in effigy...
...field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword. But not only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives a team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits...