Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GOOD GRACIOUS, chum! what shall I write about?" "Don't know, and don't care; it's sure to be stupid, anyhow, so don't spoil a good subject." "I guess I'll write on 'English and American Society.'" "What!!! Have n't you read the Advocate, on the 'limits of a college paper'? Don't you know that 'our paper should be filled exclusively with articles that have a connection with the college, - with the life here, the studies, the events of interest, that occur every day'?" "What these events of interest that happen every day may be, chum...
Though I had no heart to blame my chum in the concrete instance, I did deliver him a lecture on the abstract scorn of poetry, that is so prevalent among us, and a few words from this it is my purpose to indite here...
...absolute standard, than that of our college papers; but as educators of college taste they may be inferior, since the poetry of our classmates is more superficial and more easily understood than the work of those who have been breathing the atmosphere of poetry all their lives." Chum repeated his previous remark...
...chum at this point said, "O, let up!" So I followed the example of Emmanuel Kant (r. note-books Phil. II.) "and then dried...
...What "lush" means it would be hard to say, and as for the average "O," it reminds one of the "indeed" or our ante-collegiate (?) days. If you cannot write poetry naturally, you had better not write it at all. But while I have been making these reflections, my chum has gone to sleep, and so I fear, reader, have...