Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undoubtedly "Hammersmith," but this dealt with the one set of college society which has always furnished materials for such books in all countries. The young men who have oftenest formed the heroes of these novels belong to the class called "sappy" and give but a poor idea of the flesh and blood which is to be found in colleges as well as elsewhere. Whatever other objections may be urged to "Guerndale," however, nothing can be said against it on this score. There is an air of life about it which is lacking in all the other books that proceeded...
...this lecture and to see photographs of the "horse and other animals in motion" it is only necessary for a few dollars to be raised in order to pay for the expenses of lighting Sever 11. So many students are interested in Natural History and perhaps more in horse-flesh and the development of the American trotter that we cannot doubt but that the necessary money can easily be raised...
...Berkshire hills begin to take on the brighter hues of autumn, it becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study is a weariness of the flesh." It is no longer possible to spend one's spare hours in tramping around the country, visiting the many beautiful places of natural scenery, for which this region is so celebrated. The summer guests have all left for the pleasures and excitements of the city; and almost of necessity must...
...regaled with a pound of meat. Two days in the week, Monday and Thursday, the meal was boiled, and in college language, these were known as boiling days. On the five remaining days the meat was roasted, and to them the nickname of roasting days was fastened. With the flesh went always two potatoes. When boiling days came round pudding and cabbage, wild peas and dandelions were added. The only delicacy to which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage then fast supplanting the small beer of the Colonial days. This was brought to the men in pewter...
...Paris dispatch says: While handling a revolver at Ville d'Avray, yesterday, M. Gambetta shot himself in the hand. The bullet only traversed the flesh, and he is in no danger...