Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale winter meetings come off March 3rd and 6th. The latter date will be the ladies...
...President Arthur is suggested by the Hour for president of Yale College. If that should come about the boys would want to get up at 3 a.m. to pray. - B. Post...
...various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages of an old and heavily-endowed school. This brought out a bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here an ideal empire which combined all the best of the older States, were made by the various speakers who followed...
...above clipping plainly shows that the knowledge of the "Ebb and Decline of Bicycling at Harvard" is not confined to the college alone. When a sport, so prominent in English universities and on the increase there and in this country, has come to such a point as this, it is time that something was done; either it must be dropped altogether, or elevated to the position where it belongs. It is a deplorable fact that, among the candidates for the Mott Haven team, there is not one man trying for the bicycle race. Last year there was but one representative...
...beginning to be made against clever people (clever in the English sense, which has come to be American also,) and not altogether without reason. To be clever has been "the thing" in these parts for many years, and every other quality has been sacrificed in order to obtain, if not the reality, at least an appearance of cleverness. What is it to be clever? It is to be something more than bright, but less than intellectual. The clever man is the child of leisure, and, therefore, lazy by birth - an intellectual vagrant...