Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ASSOCIATION has been formed at the University of Michigan...
Algernon Charles was opposed to this. He had been conferring with George Francis T. and with Miss Julia A. Moore, the "sweet singer of Michigan," and they were as one man against it. "The factitious fragile flower of a fruitful fancy blossoming in deep divine imaginings, unseen and for evermore beautiful, should not be choked out by the preposterous polyhedral polytechnic and pyrotechnic perorations and preparatory ponderosity of addle-pated patriarchs...
...MICHIGAN University has 1,367 students, - the largest number of any school in the country. Harvard, with 1,350, and Yale, with 753, rank next in the number enrolled...
...prominent feature, and the article on "College Bores" is good. There is too much in the Chronicle, - too much "Various Topics." too much of "A Trip to Brazil," too many "Personals," too many "Things Chronicled," and too many "Clippings." The University is a new paper from the University of Michigan, which promises to be good-natured, and leave to the rest of the college press the part of "playing the devil generally." We will wait and see. The Yale Record and Courant are both good representative college papers. They are full of news, and are interesting without being brilliant. They...
...only word we have for voluntarily omitting recitation or chapel, has a number of synonyms. At Columbia they prefer to slope, at Michigan University they bolt, and in some of the western "educational institutions" they skate Mr. Black is unable to find derivations for these words. Slope is to be found in Hotten's Slang Dictionary, meaning "to decamp, run off," and is called an Americanism. Cut is found in the same place, meaning "to stop, cease to do anything...