Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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COLLEGE POETRY."Of all the curious things of time...
Before the introduction of the present system of assigning rooms by lot a very curious method existed - or one which seems curious in view of the present system. The rooms were assigned by classes, freshmen having ground floor rooms in all buildings except Holworthy, the whole of which was reserved for seniors, with the exception of those rooms directly under proctors, which were given to freshmen. All of the freshmen in the different buildings who held the rooms under the proctor, got their rooms free, or for a nominal sum, in consideration of services rendered to the proctors...
...Harvard-Yale game were published almost simultaneously with the remarks of Dr. Howard Crosby before the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York, in the course of which he attacked the abnormal growth and degeneracy of college athletics, and it is contended at Harvard that a more curious commentary on his speech could not have been found than an impartial and full description of that game. Dr. Crosby protests against the injurious training, the intense partizanship, the large expenditures and the encouragement given to betting and other rowdy accompaniments of professional athletics. The truest accounts of the Yale game...
...exceedingly well done. If one were to judge from the Miscellany one must conclude that the tone of thought at Vassar is predominatingly literary and philosophical. As an exponent of this turn of mind the Miscellany is very successful and might furnish an interesting subject of study for one curious to mark the stage of development in the higher education of women reached at Vassar. It displays a bracing freshness and originality of thought tempered by a pleasant humor that we believe is not approached in any other student publication in this country; while in ease and propriety of literary...
...give to the general any political capital of this kind to use in future campaigns. In this case, at least, it must be apparent to all, excepting, possibly, the recipient himself, that the honor is conferred upon the office and not the man. It will indeed be a curious sight to see a man who has expressed a desire to hang all Harvard professors occupying a seat of honor upon the platform on commencement day, and we have no doubt but that many, both within and without the State, will find the spectacle highly entertaining...