Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should this mode of transfer be prevented? As the system works at present, a Freshman may, by good fortune, secure for himself a pleasant room for the whole college course; while, on the other hand, an upper-class man, not so fortunate in past years, may still be forced to content himself with a cold, damp room, and bear, as best he may, his sore throats and chills. Would not the distribution of rooms be made more equable than it now is, if classes should have their choices in the order of seniority? That is, let Juniors have the first...
...ready wit of a celebrated demagogue on a certain trying occasion. One night, during a political campaign, he was addressing a disorderly crowd in a New York square, and, being unpopular with many of his hearers, he was frequently assailed by flying fruit and vegetables; stretching forth his hand, he caught an apple thus thrown, and, taking his knife from his pocket, proceeded with the utmost coolness to pare and eat it. Certainly an admirable repartee! But we can learn this style of oratory in the city streets among the hackmen and newsboys much better than at our great University...
Confused and stunned, on every hand I let the viands fall...
...read, at all events by the first of next week. The issue has been unexpectedly delayed by the fact that the prints cannot be removed from the Library, and after the photograph has been taken in Cambridge the impression is struck off in Boston without having the original at hand to guide the expert in fixing upon the required tint...
...writer shows to the public either by open avowal or otherwise, that he considers himself competent to lead it along the highway of jollity, it will immediately draw down its face, ridicule his assumption, and refuse to recognize his ability; if, on the other hand, he brings his satire into play, clothing his humor in sober, innocent-looking phrases, all with no apparent purpose of provoking a smile, his point is gained; the public laughs and commends...