Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sense in the little tricks that they do now-a-days, hooking a barber's sign now and then, and then acting as if they were scared to death over it. Now, the idea of blowing up the beech tree! Why any fool could do that. Besides, that is mean, for it could never be replaced. Now, if they should blow up a college building money would fix that all right, but the idea of harming a tree! I'd like to catch them at it once." At this point our policeman host was obliged to leave...
...anybody else's what he chooses, in what important particular are his morals safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript is so vigorous and pertinent in its statement that it is worth quoting entire: "What, in particular, does President Porter mean by the faculty's providing for 'attractive amusements and athletic activities?' You cite the phrase, and the alliteration makes it a noticeable one. But athletic activity is, we should suppose, quite out of the line of most of those who are called upon to take it in charge. Then, again...
...church fair, when I voted for the handsomest girl there. It isn't so that I voted for myself, and that hateful Hurty Randall only said that because I beat her by one vote. Don't you think that gentlemen ought to wear evening dress at the theatre - I mean swallow-tail; gloves and all that? Now I don't know why, but I know that Cousin Harry doesn't get thirsty so often when he wears full dress. But, dear Mr. Editor, don't you think it is awful to flirt? I never flirt when any one I know...
Much difficulty is found at the gymnasium in getting a pleasurable mean of temperature in the water in the shower-bath room. It usually seems determined to be either scalding hot, or icy cold...
...remarkable success in the athletic arena during the season. In boating, base ball, and foot ball she stands at the head, and has every reason to be proud of her victories, since they have all been gained by hard work and diligent training. She has found opponents of no mean calibre in the other colleges, but has steadily held her own, and now stands forth, crowned with the laurels of success in every department. - [Bowdoin Orient...