Word: hideous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...close of last term most of the students left Princeton for their homes, but a party of about thirty turbulent spirits, principally freshmen, remained in the town to "make night hideous." They marched through the streets, stoned the professor's house, broke off young growing trees, damaged fences, and demolished sixteen street lamps. If the newspapers may be believed, "this and previous depredations, consisting of greasing the railroad track and sawing off telegraph poles., etc., bear semblance to a speedy return of old time larks...
...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...
TWENTY-FOUR Princeton students were arrested a short time ago for making night hideous, and fined $ 3.80 apiece. Total deficit...
...Freshman still sat over the fire, with his head bowed upon his hands. How had his cherished ideal been overthrown by this revelation! His fair picture of college life had faded; and in its place was a gaudy thing, like one of those strange works of Turner, hideous and unreal. When will the Freshman be himself again? Perhaps in four years, - perhaps to-morrow. Until then we shall know him by his feigned face and mock-heroic air: for we, too, have all seen Humbug; and many of us, like the Freshman, have taken his advice. A few there...
...laurel-wreaths for other prizes at athletic contests, but he does so half jokingly, and wisely remarks that he fears the change is too radical. Seriously, would it not really be more satisfactory; a wreath can at any rate be consigned to the waste-paper basket; whereas the hideous silver-plated monstrosities which are now the reward of prowess are not to be got rid of by any amount of ingenuity...