Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given printed papers bearing the same questions it would seem the most natural way for the men to get possession of the paper before the examination. This, unfortunately, is seldom if ever practicable. The printing is watched with the most jealous care, and as soon as the papers come from the press they are safely placed under lock and key, where the wicked student has no hope of effecting an entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself...
...those books which he deems it his duty to read subsequently when he shall possess more leisure. But if this is neglected, the student falls into the ever ready snare of summer reading. The inadequacy of college life for many of our higher intellectual needs has at length come to be recognized, and several of the instructors have directed their attention to courses of reading to be pursued by the students during the summer vacation. No instruction of the university, if judiciously used, could be pursued to greater advantage than such courses. There are many courses in the schedule...
...VOGEL, Pres.LACROSSE TWELVE. Members are requested to meet at 39 Thayer to day. The crosses have come from New York and are now in the store-room of the gymnasium...
...ignoring of substantives and verbs, and throwing the main stress of the voice upon the minor parts of speech, Upon the whole, the reading was less constantly declamatory than we had expected and feared. Now and then a line, especially if it had a pathetic or humerous purport, would come out in quite a human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play...
...wild throw by catcher. Wiestling went out on a foul tip, Smith came home on a hit by Edgerly, who stole second, and went to third on a wild throw by atcher. Winslow went out short-stop to first base, and Edgerly was put out while trying to come home on a passed ball. For Dartmouth, Quackenboss struck out; Chellis out at first, assist by pitcher; Seruton made a base hit, stole second, but was put out while trying to steal third. Score...