Word: organism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...AMONG the vast multitude of editorial aspirants who are willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of college politics, there certainly can be found the required number of men whose intellects are sufficiently free from the trammels of insipidity and general profundity to conduct this highly intelligent organ in a masterly manner. It is about time that these popular fallacies in regard to the qualifications of college editors were swept away." - Cornell...
...with peculiar abhorrence, though why they should harbor such a prejudice would appear to the undergraduate mind to be due to the same cloudy wisdom that enwraps so many others of their proceedings. It may be that they fail to perceive the importance of the strains of the hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from...
...however unfriendly a reception may be accorded to the organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring...
...brought to the notice of our readers if any of them happened to be unacquainted with it. Hereafter we hope to receive the College Pen regularly, if we can induce them to exchange with a periodical which humbly acknowledges that its pretensions cannot compare with those of the organ of Neophogen...
...College of the City of New York has put forth an organ entitled The College Echo. It is not for such modest persons as ourselves to speak in any terms whatever of a paper which is capable of breaking forth in strains like the following...