Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cuts for the West Point game show how men give way to their quaint ideas about the right to cut, and the naive reasoning by which lazy men justify Saturday absences, argues well for a reconsideration of the present football schedule...
...verse, the best is "The Mouse"; I suppose it is by an editor. The free verse form is very difficult to manage successfully, and it is by no means equally good throughout, either in rhythm or tone. The lines descriptive of the mouse itself have a quaint charm; but why is the man glad? Was he afraid of the mouse, or was he only too lazy to sweep up the crumbs himself? G. K. Munroe's "Castles" has undeniable music, but most of the sense is beyond me. H. T. Pulsifer's sonnet on Lincoln is, like much...
Curtailment, further handicap, more lead to the anchor. It's as absurd as it is typical. If that small, quaint, and old-fashioned distinction of issue between victory and defeat be not forgotten, if it bear any weight with those men in whom the injudicious restraint of athletics now lies, or if they are affected in any way by the existence of conditions which breed all over the country a broadcast belittlement of the University, why in the name of conscience and common sense don't they either abolish absolutely or let alone...
...Through the Portals of Mohammed," "Arminius" sustains astonishingly the level of those interpretations but entertaining "Travel Papers," which have been a feature of the Monthly this winter; and J. L. Price collects some quaint passages from the College Records of the period of the Revolution...
...anthology, besides containing some work of surprising freshness and originality, affords peeps into the quaint and fussy Harvard of our fathers and uncles, and guesses at the interiors of certain dormitory rooms which are well known...