Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Another thing which accounts for the unpopularity of much of our poetry is its very affected vocabulary. About one half the sonnets begin with "O" or "Thou," and it is a chance if the author can get through without using "lush," or mentioning the nightingale; a bird rarely seen or heard, and so very useful, since imagination fills up the blank as the context requires.* What "lush" means it would be hard to say, and as for the average "O," it reminds one of the "indeed" or our ante-collegiate (?) days. If you cannot write poetry naturally, you had better...
...lunch counter during the intermission. Some of those who came without ladies acted as if they were at a Delta. Kappa. peanut bum, and in spite of the entreaties of the committee and waiters, crowded, till those who were disposed to be gentlemanly had to push in to get anything at all." As we read, still further down the column, that "on the whole the Promenade was a success, perhaps more so than any other we have seen." we shuddered involuntarily at the thought of what sights had met the eyes of the editors of the Courant...
...Cute answered and said, "Fool, I know thee not. Have not the great parents said, 'Let him whom prosperity forsaketh be forsaken by all?' Get thou therefore from my sight." And he cast...
...there is no clear limitation of the rights which the Corporation reserves to itself. If the College is afraid to incur the complete responsibility of providing a boarding-place for those of its students who desire to economize; care should at least be taken that these students should not get the impression that their efforts to provide such a boarding-place for themselves may be interfered with at the pleasure of the Corporation. As in the reign of George III. ministers were continually called upon in the House of Commons to deny, if possible, the existence of any unseen "influence...
...kept from burning anything but the Pi Eta rooms and the loft above. No student's room was burnt, but the floor of each was covered with water from three to six inches deep. The condition of the building is such that no one will be able to get back to his old quarters for at least several months...