Word: making
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this. Gentlemen in squeaky boots patrolled the room; other gentlemen came in with parties of ladies, and all talked in hoarse whispers which echoed through the hall; men with arms full of books crossed and recrossed the room with heavy tread; proctors, accompanied by sisters and cousins, helped to make things hideous; the nymphs of the Library flitted about the alcoves overhead, and cast furtive glances down upon the busy bookworms. My head began to swim; the page grew blurred...
...College Telegraph Company propose to keep up with the times; to this end they have abandoned the old Morse sounders, and, if a number of students sufficient to make the experiment pay will join the company, telephones will be introduced immediately. The rent of the telephones will be ten dollars each per year, and their use on the line will not interfere with the old instruments, should any one prefer to remain an old fogy. Students wishing to join the company are requested to send their names to the Secretary immediately, so that the line may be put in working...
...Harvard University Rifle Club is sadly in need of encouragement. At the present time there are hardly enough men practising to make a team, to say nothing of picking one. We urge strongly every man who enjoys shooting to become a member and to practise continuously, in order that Harvard may get together a team which will do her credit in the contests that are expected to take place during the year...
...have already, among our exchanges, the Trinity Tablet, the Boston Beacon, the Lasell Leaves, and Monthly Musings; why do we not all make use of "apt alliteration's artful aid"? We might have "Yale Yelps," "Vassar Voices," "Cornell Criticisms" (not a bad name for the Era), "The Bowdoin Bore," and "The Princeton Puritan," "Dartmouth Diggings," "Amherst Attempts...
...noticeable that a greater part of the department for the Fall numbers is given to silly foot-ball matches and other boyish nonsense which make Eastern colleges a laughing-stock in the eyes of sober-minded people. It is all well enough to have a foot-ball game once in a while for a little exercise, but for a number of colleges to take more interest in such things than they do in their studies, is a peculiar product of Eastern superiority. - Michigan Chronicle...