Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must go, it 's getting late, - good night, old boy, good night...
...backstay" in the following quotation from Scripture: "The Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, and taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority, I would suggest that haste makes waste; there are those that go out for wool and come home shorn; the pitcher that goes too often to the home base has his nose broken at last; every tub should stand upon its own bottom, - all of which are exceedingly good a priori arguments and bear directly on the point...
...since they are the only ones we have; the same man might be employed, at a certain sum, to keep the hot water running without intermission during the whole of the College year; and the money that is paid by the students for the use of the baths should go to the College. This, we think, is a better plan than to have the bath-rooms, as they are now, under the sole management of a man who may leave us in the lurch at any time he pleases...
Although a rather quiet farce, it put the audience in a happy and expectant mood, which the excellence of the burlesque did not at all disappoint. Like most burlesques which go through the remodelling and adapting hands of college societies, the title gave a very insufficient clew to the real nature of the play. Few burlesques have been given in public by our students which were so full of conversational "hits" and interesting stage "business" as this one, and it fairly bubbled over with puns, although many of these last were lost on all but the acute ears of college...
...much more picturesque. At Columbia, in the exhibitions given by the "Philolexism," a literary society, the orators and members appear in caps and gowns, and the effect is most charming. A great many of the poorer, that is to say, the more indigent, students, are compelled to go to a great expense in order to procure dress-suits, - sometimes much greater than they can afford. The caps and gowns would not cost more than ten dollars, and would be a delightful memento, after graduation, of one of the most memorable, perhaps the most memorable, occasion of college life...