Word: diggings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from...
...this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple that it needs some heroic tonic like your physics as now taught, to give it character. Macte virtute, Puer. The faculty approve of cramming and fosters the system. So go in and cram. Perhaps you will dig through to China...
...dig...
...dulce to dig in folios antique...
SCENE, Library. (Two old-clo' men speak to a dig at the table.) "I see you don't allow strangers in here; but we are not going to stay long. Are going right...