Word: old
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bringing this host of new vowel-sounds into our language, we have not been entirely the losers, - indeed, we have kept most of the old full vowels, using them, however, infrequently. The only sound that seems irrevocably gone from our tongue is a full sonorous o, such as is found in Italian and German, and, though a little shorter, in French as well...
...immense. The Fiend and the Phoenix were quoted far and wide. Even after the immediate appropriateness of their use was past, the newspaper men could n't give them up. It is but recently that a leading Boston daily ascribed a very modest and unpretentious conflagration to that same old demon, - the Fire-Fiend...
...case a Sophomore is said to have broken squarely the engagement he had made as a Freshman, and, when expostulated with, to have excused himself by saying that he was going to invite a large party of his own friends to visit him on the day in question! The old custom is a pleasant one, and there is no reason that it should be broken up and a general festival of all undergraduates substituted; and it seems but fair that Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors, who hope for courteous treatment from those they will leave behind when they graduate, should...
...yard. It is expected that soon no one will be allowed to toss a book about while walking through the yard, under penalty of suspension. Besides, to avoid all ambiguity as to the respectful attitude of the students toward the officers of government, it is recommended that the old rule forbidding any undergraduate to wear his hat in the yard unless it rain or snow, or he have both hands full, be revived and stoutly enforced...
...will next contribute to the collection a hawk and a crow from H y, also an owl which has sat for several years in solemn silence, scanning the movements of the inhabitants of 17 H'y. Could it speak, tales of some queer freaks in this old room might be told. A clock which used to be kept in Mass. 27 might add to the wonder of what is coming next. This shall be an exceedingly large pair of spectacles with various names upon it, and which formerly did service perhaps as a sign. A map of the world, completely...