Word: fluttering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...change would undoubtedly be welcomed by the undergraduates. Probably not one student in a hundred is genuinely interested in declamation; there is a flutter of interest in declamation each spring but it seems to be caused only by the two hundred and fifty dollars offered in prizes, and it dies away as soon as the prizes are awarded. On the other hand there is a substantial proportion of the students who are interested and give much time to debating work, not only in the debating societies but in the courses offered by the Faculty...
...superb depth of color. While at Bath, Gainsborough also painted a great many landscapes, which are now considered his masterpieces. He had a knack of giving a momentary effect to his pictures. Horace Walpole caught the spirit of his picture, "The Mall," and said it was all of a flutter like a lady...
...HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 7. - The Yale Athletic Association received a proposition from the faculty conference committee of the University of Pennsylvania, which has caused a flutter of excitement on the Yale campus. It is signed by George W. Pepper, secretary of the committee, and calls attention to the charges of professionalism which have been so frequent in the newspapers recently, relative to the members of the University of Pennsylvania football eleven, who are arbitrarily termed "professionals...