Word: olden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very early times the laws of the state and the church were identical. Law, among men of olden times, was believed to be sacred and to come from God. This close kinship existed between theology and jurisprudence before those terms were used as the names of definite...
...Masks and Faces," written by Tom Taylor and Reade, of which Peg Woffington is the heroine. is one of the most delightful survivals of the drama of the olden time. This play gives a good idea of the life and bustle of the theatre stage...
...Long Time to Wait" is one of the best things that Chamberlin has written this year. It is a rather pathetic story and is very well done. "Cutting The Leaves" is a poem without much merit. A pretty couplet is "Uncut Pages, begun and ended with liltings learned from olden time." "Under the Profile" is another of Louis How's stories. It is long and at times interesting. The end is flat. "Hal Longworth," is a story of the sensational type, the hero dropping dead at the end in a very sudden and startling manner...
...regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another for bidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gown are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statue book; no observance is paid them. They are good examples of a certain class of petty rules and regulations in existence, but never enforced at Oxford...
...fiction numbers are well written. "A Summer Wooing" is a pretty picture of the wooing of an old Quaker. Miss Ethel Davis contributes the first number of a serial story called "Leunett," "A Family Tree" is a simple tale but with a pleasing air of "ye olden time" in both character and description...