Word: genus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to find specimens of the genus man with more unlike characteristics than the German and the American university student. So fundamental is this difference that it reaches back into the years before he goes to the university. Our American boy make up his mind that he must do hard and faithful work in school from his sixteenth to his eighteenth year, in order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome...
...fact, most of their hits were of the genus known as "scratch." Eighty-nine played a sharp fielding game and batted hard at opportune times, white Eighty-seven's hits were scattered. Litchfield pitched for '87 for six innings, when Powers was put into the box. Manly's hands gave out in the seventh inning, but he pluckily held out till the end. Litchfield caught well for '89; his batting also was one of the features of the game...
...addition to freshman, Webster's Unabridged would have contained fresh-woman; but such is not the case, and it would be unseemly in us to try to improve upon the Hindoos. Freshman must stand, and in using it we desire to be understood as referring to the genus fresh homo...
...have had occasion before to call attention to the "rough" element which appears in the college yard night and day, and it is certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling...
...Boston Post wayside writer has the following to say in regard to a familiar character: "While penning this paragraph, in relation to the genus tramps and beggars, I had a call from the king tramp of this country, Gen. Daniel Pratt, who has travelled so extensively through Uncle Sam's domains that he has fairly earned the soubriquet of 'Great American Traveller.' I well remember my first acquaintance with the general. It was in my freshman year at college, more years back than a man who fancies that life is slipping away from him can with complacency think of. Daniel...