Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heavy clouds of yesterday afternoon served to frighten away all but a mere handful of spectators from the second game between the Beacons and the 'Varsity nine. Those who braved the chances of catching a wetting wished that they had staid at home, for the game, after dragging along through nine tedious innings, resulted in a defeat for the home team...
...Cambridge Tribune indulges in a complaint against Harvard athletes for using North Avenue as a running track. "Squads of them," says the Tribune, "frequently monopolize the sidewalk, crowding to one side persons who happens to be in the way as they rush past. Sometimes they select the street, and frighten horses as they run by them, clad in airy gymnasium costume. This use of a principal street as a training ground is getting to be an intolerable nuisance, and should be stopped." Of course, we regret very much that Harvard men should be the cause of an "intolerable nuisance." although...
...titles themselves almost frighten us. "Friendship," "Purpose," "Ruhmes Halle," - these have an unpleasant abstractness about them and hardly seem to belong to college journalism. Still, it must be confessed, some of these attempts at philosophy, at the ethical and the didactic, are exceedingly well made, and would reflect credit on papers of a higher order...
...plan is briefly as follows: 1, I would begin as early as possible to overcome the mechanical difficulties of writing, and would use all practicable means and all possible opportunities to do so; 2, I would not frighten a boy with "compositions," so-called, till he could form his sentences with tolerable correctness, and use his pen with freedom, but, 3, when he was set to work writing composition, he should be kept steadily at it, and at the same time should be made to take an interest in what he is doing, and should be impressed with the importance...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. In your Monday's issue I noticed a suggestion that a policeman be employed to patrol the yard and frighten the small boys away. The suggestion is praiseworthy. But a further and still more valuable use might be made of the said policeman. He might be employed as a portable scare-crow and have appended to him before and aft placards bearing the firm injunction, keep off the grass. He might then be moved from place to place by "the authorities," and put athwart the pths of the sand-loving students who prefer to see a checker...