Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...guileless Freshman is seen inquiring the way to the Secretary's office or to Carl...
...very uncertain basis, does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate of last week. We should think that Mr. Blakie would hardly foreclose this spring, if there was a reasonable chance of getting the rest of his money in the autumn ; and the coming of the guileless Freshman, like the first bird of spring, may be a forerunner of better times for the House Clubs. With this in view, and the expenditure of a little more energy on the part of the club secretaries, we think boating matters will be found to be in a fair condition...
Alas, we were mistaken. On the evening of so-called Bloody Monday a party of sportive Sophomores, led by some powerful motive, such as the love of "roughing" or the desire for free beer, sallied forth in quest of the guileless Freshman...
...party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare, and stare. The provincial and antiquated gotten is paraded forth in all its whilom beauty and usefulness by the simple and guileless Westerner, while the meek and humble it is made to pay a much heavier part than it was ever intended...
...More guileless frank than Grecian Sinon's smiles...