Word: donning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE Cornell Times, in an editorial bemoaning the lack of interest shown by young Americans in the condition and history of their own country, makes use of the following "very remarkable expression": "We venture to assert that there are not very many young men in this institution - and we certainly...
We don't mind racing Yale; but confess, with sorrow, that our crew is not heavy enough to row against the Agawam ferry-boat.
THOSE papers which devote two thirds of their space to reviewing first-class periodicals, and append a list of such "exchanges," ought to be congratulated on having worked up to the higher plane of literature. Don't howl "sour grapes." They must be regarded as only a little above Dryden...
Men meeting every day at the table and recitations may like each other very well, when a more intimate knowledge of each other's character would tend to lessen their friendship. "If you want to keep a friend, don't go and live with him," is a saying of which...
You sit down to enjoy a good novel, or, possibly, to indulge in the cheerful grind. Your chum, a would-be member of the ball nine, is practising drop-catch against the opposite wall; you wish, though perhaps you don't say so, that he was - anywhere, out of the...