Word: one
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...One of the religious societies here has published a pamphlet, showing that, on the principles of the gyroscope, we are liable every time we dance and get to whirling fast to whop over on to our heads and spin there...
...asked me how we liked the fellows here. Generally speaking, there is very little love lost between us. (There are one or two brilliant exceptions, of course, but I reserve my accounts of them till Christmas vacation.) They take extraordinary pains to jeer at us and snub us at every opportunity. They fill their paper - "The Harvardiana" - with slurs and poor jokes on ours. But I think "The Tea-Table and University News-Letter" can hold its own with their wretched periodical. There's a dear little Freshman across the entry who keeps me in tobacco and matches...
...One drawback to our progress here is the bashfulness of the instructors. When we advance an opinion in the class-room, and back it up with argument, the professor appears to draw back into his shell, and to decline controversy with us, because we are ladies. They need n't be so awfully afraid of us. Meanwhile the students of the stronger (?) sex perform what they call a "wood up." Before I came here I always supposed that the bray was the distinctive noise of the donkey; here it appears that the stamp...
...assumption was not in any way mended by his donning a suit of blue clothing with red or pink stripes, red leggings, and top boots; however, his nose was very red, and that goes a great way with an audience. During the evening, the Majiltons performed their one act, with which we are pretty familiar by this time. It was, of course, encored...
...One hand grasped a new five-cent blank-book which he nervously pressed to his side...