Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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This man is held up to us as one influenced to a remarkable extent by the famoe sacra fames. Notoriety he thirsted for, and notoriety he certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash...
The older I grow (I am now quite venerable), the more I am inclined to think that it is nothing but lack of ability or opportunity that keeps down this element in the majority of men. Of course there are exceptions, but excessive modesty is not a common failing of...
Look at that "dig," whom you have known, ever since you entered college, as the most retiring, modest fellow imaginable. Yet he goes away into some country place, and, as he gets out of his old ruts and among people where his superiority is in some respects tacitly acknowledged, you...
Fallen, indeed, is this the beau-ideal of a virtuous and simple-minded "dig," the pride of the Faculty!
I NOTICED in the last Magenta an article commending the practice of roughing (I must accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In...