Word: fondness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dancing. The writer thinks that the introduction of this profane amusement into the mixed college society of the West would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...
...reproduction of a modern genre picture. But it is, if not absolutely necessary, at least highly desirable to hang upon your walls pictures that will suggest ideas; pictures at which you can look with pleasure for more than a single moment; pictures of which you will in time grow fond, instead of longing at the end of a couple of months to pitch them out of the window...
...Fond fancy brings back in my day-dreams...
UNDERGRADUATES who desire to become members of the French Club can send their names to H'y 19. This club is not confined to the upper classes, and offers peculiar advantages to men acquainted with and fond of French. Freshmen are urged especially to hand their names in as soon as possible...
...Fond mem'ry will to each recall...