Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical custom to the exclusive use of a small class of men. The athletes in this respect are a privileged set; they claim the University colors as their distinctive mark...
...senior class of the Institute of Technology gave a very successful ball last evening in Odd Fellows Hall, Boston...
...what ought to be done just as soon as the college year opens. Look at her crew, the candidates returned to college last week and devoted the last half of the Christmas recess to work. They spend the entire Easter recess there in training. They intend to have the odd number this year in favor of Yale, if hard work will...
...should have to apply for the place of clerk to the State Senate in order to secure "a vacation from the wearing duties of his present [editorial] position.' Yet such is the tale told us by his friend the Ogdenburg Daily Journal. In the first place, it is rather odd that service in the Senate clerkship should be to all intents and purposes a vacation, for it draws a salary, and professors of journalism ought not to take a salary for taking a vacation. In the next place, we should think Mr. Fitch might secure the needed rest from...
Last, year the "T Company" erected a rather odd but very pretty little hall on the corner of College and Wall streets, opposite the "Scroll and Key," and now the "Stone Trust Company, " or "Sigma Delta Chi," better known as the "Book and Snake," a sister society of the "T Company," in the Sheffield scientific school, is about to erect a cloister, which, in all respects, will fill the modern idea of a club house...