Word: honester
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same paths year after year; and so it is with real pleasure that we observe the enterprise of the editors of the Dartmouth in securing for their paper regular and special correspondents at Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges. These letters, we are promised, will be "sprightly, interesting, but honest," and the writers will be the most brilliant that these institutions afford. O happy and much-to-be-envied Dartmouth...
There is a charming bit of poetry called "The Charcoal Man," written by Trowbridge, in which the honest hero is pictured as coming home after shouting his familiar cry since early morn, and listening to the never-failing echo, and as he enters the room, he bends over the baby's crib, and whispers "charco' " in the little ear. The youngster cooing with delight, tosses up his arms, and echoes "harko' " just as the hills had been doing all day long. Now, why cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life...
...regret to say that in this part of the world there are very few men who approach my idea of what a gentleman ought to be. There are some bright men, and a great many smart ones; some able men, and an unusually large number of honest ones; but very few who are really well-bred men of the world. This is perfectly natural. We have no families, or if we have, etiquette does not permit us to say much about them; and, in general, our society is composed of two classes of men, - those who are busily engaged...
...Fair Harvard," and quite as entertaining. It follows very closely the track of its predecessor in the general plan, and even in such a small matter as the name of the hero. He is described as a "fresh, frank, noble-looking young fellow, full six feet tall, with an honest face, bright eyes, and thick, curling, chestnut hair," and is introduced talking with a "fine-looking young man, with dark side-whiskers," and "a smile which was strangely winning." They are sub-Freshmen who enter, agree to chum without having seen each other before, and whose adventures, together with those...
...Franklin's, or Hancock's old mansions. The razing of Fort Hill; the loss of the famous Brattle Street Church, with its British cannon-ball buried in its face; of the Paddock elms; of that perfect monument of Colonial architecture, the Hancock House, have changed Boston much from the honest provincial town it was in "Ye Olden Tyme"; but Faneuil Hall, the Old South, the Old North, St. Paul's, Brimstone Corner, King's Chapel, and the Old State House still remain; while across the water, says G. W. Curtis in his "Eulogy on Sumner," "Lo! memorial of a battle...