Word: lated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heartily concur with him in longing for a cessation of the various shouts, cat-calls, snatches of popular melodies, the repetition of men's names in loudest tones from distant buildings, and, not the least annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying. Blue lights are very pretty, and bonfires mildly exciting, but cannon-crackers are neither...
...expected, there are both morning and evening prayers; though only an occasional attendance is required. Could not we have some modification of this rule? We might have prayers twice a day, but only be required to attend once; a provision which would accommodate both the early and the late risers. There are many in the latter class who are injured physically by getting up at six. It is easy to say that they can go to bed early; but to get to bed before ten is very difficult; and even then, if you sleep every instant of the time...
...fellow-students at Bowdoin have of late attracted a considerable share of public attention by proceedings which were, to say the least, extremely impolitic, and of necessity utterly unproductive of any result. If the refractory classes had intended to destroy all chance of their wishes being acceded to, they could not have contrived a more sure method than the extreme course which they have taken. The Faculty, after what has happened, cannot recede an inch consistently with the dignity of their position, and have absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable...
...fellow "J. C. W., 1792," was; whether he was a dig or a loafer, and whether he had a chum. I mean to go to the Library some day and learn all about J. C. W. and his college career. I have not time to tell of the long, late, lovely grinds I had here afterwards when I became a great student, nor of the quiet games at chess with the proctor on Saturday nights; for the shadows are growing long on the graceful curves of my time-warped floor, and the crowd is hurrying to evening Commons...
...amount of instruction in this direction, on account of the alarming degree of ignorance which prevails in some parts of the country and even in the minds of many of our legislators. This ignorance has been disagreeably apparent during the discussion on the currency bill now before Congress. Of late we have read nothing but repeated protests against the folly of inflation, and complaints of the wilfulness of Congressmen, who, through ignorance, are unconsciously heightening the dangers of a worthless paper-currency. Either the nature of values has been too little taught hitherto, or very incompetent men have been sent...