Word: old
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...find none were it pointed out to him with ever so much care and repetition. And as to the beauty of expression, some of this must be seen in the anatomical dissection spoken of. But are we so in want of instruction in the beauty of expression of the old writers? Methinks I remember a classical course in my Freshman year, where it was considered that the "happy rendering of this" and the "humorous use of yap here" were quite sufficiently dwelt upon...
...author, by the by, says, "This easy and familiar old pronunciation is done away with, in favor of a new and foreign-sounding style." Is it not well to change the wrong for the right? And does not it seem natural that the language of foreigners long dead should sound foreign...
...appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which, passed as they were under the old regime, we delight in recalling...
Another reform is "The Harvard University Catalogue." The Catalogue is to all intents and purposes the "same old coon"; but some two hundred pages of interesting Examination-papers and choice advertisements have been generously added, making the "dem'd total" only five times as expensive as its less pretentious predecessor...
These, then, are our long-looked-for reforms. A resignation by the Sophomores of their time-honored prerogatives; forty cents' worth of old examination-papers done up in book-form; the right to smoke in the holy precincts of the Yard without scandalizing the feelings of some conscientious proctor; and as a climax to this remarkable category, men who are averse to cuts, and have been heard audibly to growl when an occasional one has been given, are to be informed that they may cut whenever they please...