Word: means
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...convert the present Gymnasium into a swimming-bath, a use for which it is well adapted." A wooden building of any description whatever, placed, as it would probably be, near some one of the substantial brick or stone structures in the College grounds, could not but present a mean and cheap appearance. It is very unfortunate that the University has not the means to erect, what almost every other college in the country now has, a convenient Gymnasium in a substantial, handsome building...
Again, would it not make our associations much more pleasant? I mean, would we not, in after years, look back with much more pleasure on our college days, if we were connected with the College in this as in other respects? We all know that gathering around the same table unites persons much more than meeting in any other way. As an example of this plan, we have the Commons of the English Universities. Their Commons are certainly successful, and, having the advantage of their experience, we might improve upon them; for instance, by the adoption of the "European" system...
...phase of American life. It is becoming more and more Parisian every day, both in appearance and manner of life. As a consequence, it is adapted, as no other city in the States is, to the requirements of a loafing public. By loafing we would not be understood to mean the vulgar street-corner and bar-room form of this refined enjoyment, but the graceful and elegant passing of one's time, when no duties call, in a round of well-timed and carefully moderated enjoyments. It is an art, this living a life of leisure well, and New-Yorkers...
...asks Freshman for a chew. All waltz. Knapsacks not so heavy as they were. Take greased-lightning express at next village. Find ourselves going the wrong way. Don't care. Arrive home 11.30. Mangled by pet bull-dog. Four hundred and fifty miles in three days, not so bad! Mean to walk to Cuba next summer...
...world is hollow and that she wants to be a nun. So Kenelm Chillingly very early in life discovers that everything is vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life...