Word: raw
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Washington Jeffersonian, from Washington, Pa., is a new recruit (we will not say a raw recruit) to the enormous army of college papers. It needs a good deal of drilling, especially in technical matters; we notice several misprints. It is also given to rather broad statements; as, for instance, that the Canterbury Tales are a liberal translation of the Decameron, and that the "scheme" of Paradise Lost is derived from the "Divina Commedia." The following phrases are remarkable for elegance of expression: "Under the loving surveillance of his blissful guide": "Along the endless corridors of time"; "He (the setting...
...information, but as all our exchanges are full of it, we quote the latest on the subject from the Tyro, for the benefit of curious readers: "It appears that at Vassar College there is one day in the week called "Onion Day,' on which all the ladies indulge in raw onions, as a health promoter. It requires upwards of fifteen bushels of this high-toned esculent to go around...
...blissful ignorance of the principles of rowing. The natural result is, that when any man of the six is obliged for some reason to leave the crew, those who are left are placed in a very unpleasant predicament. They are usually obliged to fill up the boat with raw men, and the crew is thus put back to a great extent. This is not a theory, but is what has occurred constantly on the river during the past month. There has been but one recourse in such extremities, - the second crews. It is usually considered that these crews are formed...
...Sophomores have been obliged to put forward as representing the rowing power of their class, a second crew is an absolute necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...
Physics (Sophs.) in the morning; and while they are raw...