Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent editorial on "hazing" in the Sunday Herald is in one sense encouraging. It shows that the drift of public sentiment in such matters is towards a greater reasonableness and fairness of judgment in the affairs of college students, and away from prejudice and summary condemnations. In this particular the effect of the expression of such liberal and tolerant views by the public press can do little but good. But that the special illustrations that the Herald uses in order to enforce its meaning are really well-chosen and just is very doubtful. Both the Trinity and the Bowdoin affairs...
...current events and discussions of American politics. An interest in the details of party management, in the workings of the spoils system, and in the glories of American stump oratory and buncomb is hardly to be expected of them. But that they do generally keep up with the current drift of discussions of political principles to as great an extent as almost any other class in the community is, we believe, the case. In our own case, this abundant interest in current politics and party principles is evinced by the great popularity of the study of political science at Harvard...
...following day I volunteered my services as an instructor in swimming, and gave my pupil her first experimental lectures at high tide; while the Yale man, from the shelter of a pile of drift-wood, cast rancorous glances at us and soliloquized in good round New Haven English...
...chapel choir's singing is like drift-wood floating on a stream - it drags on the bars, but don't amount to a dam. - Princetonian...