Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites of old kept in view to remind them of death and the grave. On being informed that these ornaments, with their strange devices, are badges of secret fraternities of a social or literary character, the foreigner is curious to inquire into the nature of the secrets which are so carefully guarded, the existence of which however, is thus signified to the public...
...They insist that the evils are many and positive. Large concourses of students gather in the cities subject to all the excitement of college rivalry, to all the temptations offered by college friends, and to all the opportunities of a holiday in a large city. These are, clearly enough, grave objections, and can be urged against some (by no means against all) of the inter-collegiate contests. The time lost to the student, the money expended by the college, and the attention distracted from the studies of the curriculum, have all been enlarged upon and exaggerated...
...from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries of "No popery," "Down with the Pope," and cheers for the "Church of England." The noise called forth fresh recruits from the adjoining colleges, and the matter assumed such grave importance that the heads of Pembroke ordered the room to be opened. This was not easily done, because the "oak" had been screwed up for the occasion, and trouble had been anticipated. When Mr. Grissell had been taken out, the papal chamberlain was ejected "at the toe of the boot...
...those just expressed so lucidly and clearly by Mr. Johnson!" Some examiners try to discover what a student knows, and others appear to aim rather at elucidating the ignorance of the candidates who appear before them. But to the end of time, there will be humor mixed with the grave concerns of testing knowledge, which is, for both sides, a hard enough task. The student who, when asked by a stern examiner what he would recommend in order to produce copious perspiration in a patient, replied, "I'd make him try to pass an examination before...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : In the last number of the Crimson I noticed a letter in reference to the negotiations that are at present pending between the boat clubs of Harvard and Yale. The charges made in the letter are grave, certainly, but I think that upon examination it will be found that they are from the pen of one of the graduates who interest themselves in college athletics without sufficiently acquainting themselves with the actions and policy of those who have the direction of these athletics. Of such men, I regret to say, there have been of late altogether...