Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton and Yale both cordially welcome Harvard back again into the foot-ball league. The Princetonian and News express almost as much satisfaction with the recent action of our faculty as characterizes the most jubilant Harvardian. These courteous greetings are expressive of a generous rivalry that speaks well for the contest next fall...
...prominent journal has recently published a sarcastic article on "Harvard slang" tending to show that although we are versed in many strange tongues and, strange to say, even in our own, we never speak in any of them, but express our ripest ideas for the most part in the questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal...
Sixteen silk hats were observed on the sidewalk in front of Sawin's express office yesterday afternoon; also about seventy-five trunks...
...tendency of college literary writing than of the governing policy of the board of editors. The columns of the Monthly are open to all, and the sine qua non is only literary excellence. If those who are dissatisfied with the dark stamp of the contents of the Monthly, will express more hopeful views in an attractive form, and with the requisite literary merit, we feel sure their productions will meet with an impartial judgment...
...sort that we would like to see, that we believe our Harvard readers would like to see. It cannot be said that Harvard men are men of no opinions, but it can be said, with no little justice perhaps, that Harvard men are not as ready to express opinions as they should be. It is no conceit for us to say that the CRIMSON is one of the best means now existing by which college opinion may be expressed, and we would gladly see the paper become more a paper of college sentiment than it has been in the past...