Word: deal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...part to the whole, may naturally be of a peculiarly fallacious and depreciative character. Briefly, are we not indifferent from superficial thought, and superficial from desultory attention, divided energy, want of definite purpose, and laziness? A laziness fostered, it is true, by a little dilettante culture, and a great deal of affected disapproval of everything which is now done or though by ourselves or others...
SOPH. (with an air of ennui). I used to go to the theatre a good deal in my Freshman year, but I don't care anything about...
Letter-Writing IV. should only be open to those students who had attained 70 per cent in Freshman prescribed small-talk. The textbooks in this course should be Jules Michelet's "L' Amour," and Robinson's "Multum in Parvo; or, The Art of saying a great Deal when you have Nothing to talk about." It is thought that these four electives would cover all the branches of letter-writing, and would be of more practical advantage to the student than any course now given in college. Persons not connected with the College in any way are apt to think that...
...during the past fortnight. Two of them are published together, and three of the huge pages of this paper are filled with a biographical notice of a fictitious Amherst trustee, - a notice which is apparently intended to be of a humorous character. The Exchanges are written with a good deal of care, and with a most elaborate effort at chatty easiness of style. Indeed, the effort is so elaborate that the chatty easiness is lost, and the result of the writer's labors by no means repays the pains which he has bestowed upon them...
...Boat-House was dedicated on the 9th, with a good deal of ceremony...