Word: decent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That the dress of students be neat and decent is highly proper, but that it should be very ornamental and expensive is ever needless, and often times pernicious; nor will any student who is solicitous to acquire knowledge, and sincerely disposed to improve his time to the best advantage in obtaining such degrees of it as may enable him to be extensively useful to the community, feel a reluctance to economical institutions respecting dress. He will not only esteem the ornaments of mind of vastly higher importance than those of the body, but the general good will also constantly influence...
...Oxford Freshman games on Monday, the 17th of November. H. Madeley won the quarter in 53 4-5s. The mile was captured by H. Munrce in the creditable time of 4m. 44 3-5s. W. P. Montgomery won the high, clearing the very decent height of 5ft. 6 1-2in.; and 20ft. 8m was covered by H. G. Fanands in the running broad...
...important feature of the game. Loosing the ball after it has been carried close up to the opposite goal line, or making a careless punt out or kick for goal are altogether too common with our men and are the reasons why we so often fail to make a decent score when playing much the better game...
...stoop to deny the slanders, prompted by defeat, which their mouth-piece, the Philippians has made. But there must be somewhere in the school a streak of ordinary good-breeding in the midst of the vulgarity that is so prominent, and we would ask the decent element in the school to make an apology, as public as the insult, in order that they may partially redeem the good name of their school. Hereafter, we would recommend that no Harvard team play with the students of Phillips Academy, Andover...
...unfortunate writer as "sorrows crowd upon him thickly," and his "life is like a gloomy night." Again we have the false ring, bringing with it as a matter of course, ridicule. Sincerity is of value in any thing under heaven, but nowhere more than in poetry of any decent kind. This is a point the "ridiculous poets" always forget...