Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This is very Eastern, but purely figurative. Very few of this tribe have beards. A small mustache, not large enough to singe worth speaking of, is about...
When my neighbor calls to return a borrowed book, and for a whole hour imposes upon me his theories respecting the Eastern Question, all of which it required less than five minutes to glean from an article in a newspaper of the evening previous, I fully realize this evil. How soothing to my impatience is his assurance that he was not aware time was passing so quickly, when to me ages were slowly wearing away...
...eastern side of the building, i e. on the side nearest the Scientific School, are the bathing and dressing rooms. A dressing-room fitted with lockers, and measuring 16 by 93 feet, extends from the office door to the northern wall of the building. This part of the gymnasium has one small and two large wings. The northeastern and southeastern wings (each 20 by 24 feet) are provided with stationary wash-bowls and bath-tubs, and have brick floors and glazed-brick walls; thus, the greatest durability and the greatest cleanliness are at once obtained. The small wing, between...
...breakfast between the hours of a quarter past seven and half past eight, is manifestly a return to those barbarous customs which he, for one, has always thought it his duty to oppose. Undoubtedly to one accustomed, as he has always been, to Eastern luxury, there is something particularly barbaric in an early breakfast; but he must remember that we, unlike him, have been brought up under those strictly Puritan influences which frown down late rising in holy horror. The change is certainly desired by a large majority of those students who board at Memorial. Mr. Growler, if not satisfied...
...noticeable that a greater part of the department for the Fall numbers is given to silly foot-ball matches and other boyish nonsense which make Eastern colleges a laughing-stock in the eyes of sober-minded people. It is all well enough to have a foot-ball game once in a while for a little exercise, but for a number of colleges to take more interest in such things than they do in their studies, is a peculiar product of Eastern superiority. - Michigan Chronicle...