Word: dose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Lit for April is far superior to our other exchanges, and seems to be an interesting and highly creditable publication. Our high opinion of its merits, however, may be owing to our having taken immediately before it a large dose of other college papers. The prize oration on Carlyle is certainly original and thoughtful, though we cannot commend its style. The editors of the Lit. should be careful about quotations. Horace and Coleridge both suffer in this number...
...elective studies. The author shows a good deal of sense and acknowledge of his subject, but the article can hardly apply to us, as we have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self-styled "Universities" which are so numerous in this country have no right to their...
...used as a barrack for the troops, and was damaged by our patriotic soldiers to the extent of Pound 67 sterling, an account which was afterwards allowed by the Legislature. It is with sincere pleasure that we hear that No. 8 Hollis has escaped a heavy dose of that uncongenial fluid whose presence - particularly in punch - is so certainly de trop; for this hallowed room was occupied about the year 1780 by Mr. Charles Angier, - may fairies waltz over his uncle's grave! As Mr. John Holmes so delightfully relates, "he conceived the grand idea of a perpetual entertainment...
...Bailey; "Our Music," Mr. Lamson; "Carl's," Mr. Hatch; "Our Drama," Mr. Sargent; "Vacation," Mr. Sawyer. The singing went off well under the direction of Mr. Greenleaf and with the assistance of Mr. Babcock. The responses to the toasts and the literary parts were, in spite of the "severe dose of Physics" in the morning, well performed. The table was left about eleven, and the society, as is usual, walked out, the warmth of the evening making it a pleasant finale to the evening's enjoyment. While going through Cambridge Street, the colored gentry seemed to appreciate the sweet negro...
...whether Antonelli had taken an extra dose of chain lightning by way of lightening his chains, remains a matter of doubt; but certain it is that he so far forgot himself as to give vent to one or two unmistakable guffaws at the mishap of his master...