Word: heinous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classes; confinement to room, extra guard duty, and light prison. The first is inflicted when some unfortunate has failed to sweep his quarters properly, or has wasted his butter at dinner. The crime of smoking is visited with twelve hours of extra duty, while card-playing, or any such heinous offense, consigns the delinquent to prison for a month or two. The Barracks are inspected daily, and an inquisition officer can cause us much trouble. The clothes-bag, for instance, is probably doing duty as pantry and wine-cellar, and may contain a pipe or a pack of cards...
...aesthetic side of art." Identifying Mr. Wilde and the "aesthetic side of art" is good. This whole discussion is, we fear, becoming somewhat tiresome; but then we must ask the American in what single instance college boys were incited by their daily journals to any such a heinous piece of business as we were guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school...