Word: manly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...women, and with melancholy mortification the proceedings of some of our younger fellow-students who greeted the athletes with very peculiar shouts and cheers. It was our intention to tell of the Museum and Menagerie, - how we winked at the Circassian Girl, shook hands with the Fat Man, and solved the mystery of the What Is It; but our space is too limited for these interesting details...
...singularities of Slavonic names so great, we can hardly expect that he held his peace in regard to our extraordinary sounds. Accordingly, in his "History of German Religion and Philosophy" we find a very witty illustration which is quite to the point. He gives an account of a man fabricated by an English mechanician. This manufactured man did credit to the author of his being, lacking only a soul, A sort of feeling the creature had in its leathern breast; and this feeling, Heine maliciously observes, was not essentially different from the ordinary feelings of an Englishman. It could even...
...objected that the English language is no more peculiar in its sounds than any other; and certainly a man is inclined to find any language surprising and ridiculous which is not his own. This point is well illustrated by Montesquieu, who makes nis countrymen ask their visitor from the East, "Comment peut-on etre Persan?" But Heine, whom we quoted above, was above the influence of this prejudice, as he knew Italian and French very thoroughly, and never found anything ludicrous in the sound of these languages. Since this is so, we must conclude that there was to him something...
...class of these words sprang into an immense use as a consequence of the Chicago fire, and have retained their place in the journalist's dialect ever since. Doubtless the man who invented the expression "Fire-Fiend" thought he had done a good thing in the way of personification, and the first six or seven editorials on the great fire were perhaps strengthened by the use of that bold figure. At any rate, its popularity was insured by the indorsement thus received. The "Phoenix" had also manifested himself to a few hopeful minds at this time, and these two some...
...much more work demanded of students in preparing themselves for their annual examinations than at any other time during the year. This extra labor is required when the energies of the mind are wasted by the tediousness of a six months' drill. This is certainly poor economy. A business man pursuing such a course would be immediately condemned as a bad calculator. It is plain, then, that a remedy for this miscalculation is needed. A short vacation at the time suggested above would go far toward correcting...