Word: quainted
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...merry soul and a quaint...
...window this morning, taking a walk, for he did not learn the antics of the gymnasium in his college days, and still holds to the old-time constitutional in the open air. He dresses so plainly, and with so little regard to modern style, that he looks positively quaint. Another equally learned professor, whom I met the other day, dresses also very plainly and unfashionably. Their manners are so unaffected and simple, with all their learning, and not in the least like the 'airs' of the students they teach. The freshmen have the grandest airs, and are the busiest boys...
Some of the rules respecting the subordination of the freshmen to the members of the higher classes which were in vogue a hundred years ago are most quaint. At Harvard College in the last century no freshman was allowed to "speak to a senior with his hat on, or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." And every freshman, with an occasional exception, was obliged to serve as errand-boy for "any of his seniors, graduates or undergraduates, at any time, except in studying hours or after nine o'clock...
...sensibly in regard to the Bowdoin hazing case: "Exactly why the relations of students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur...
...Langtry has won not her spurs exactly but her ribbons already on the stage. All the women of fashion in London are wearing caps modelled on one worn by her as Kate Hardcastle, with a quaint full border of lace. The last dramatic furor in caps was created by Ellen Terry when she played Olivia...