Word: recently
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...touching hats, the writer warns the students of Purdue that their conversation must never soar above the comprehension of the ladies with whom they are talking. The comprehension of the local lady - to judge from the article in question - is probably bounded by local agriculture, cookery, and the recent fashionable novelties of Indianapolis...
...have received several complaints of the recent examination in Solid Geometry from members of the Freshman Class; and after careful inspection of the examination paper, we have come to the conclusion that these complaints are by no means groundless. Sixteen questions were given, two of the four easiest of which were to be omitted at option; answers to fourteen were required. And these fourteen are a series of problems and propositions whose solution might well perplex a far wiser mathematician than the average Freshman is supposed...
...reported that the Columbia crew is already selected, and that it is to consist of three of their last year's crew, a member of a recent University Eight of Oxford, England, one of the Wesleyan crew of last year, and a Harvard graduate who is now at the Columbia School of Mines. Columbia will certainly be well represented next summer, even though this report should prove false in some particulars...
...Irish stew and a dessert of very much boiled rice fulfilled the requirements of the constitution relative to furnishing three courses at dinner. This he leaves for others to solve. Before closing let me call attention to a remarkable property possessed by the turnip, - that vegetable described by a recent writer on food and dietetics as "possessing a low nutritive value." Let me call attention to the patience and perseverance of this turnip. Again and again has it left our tables untouched; again and again has it reappeared to tempt us with its fragrant smell. Poor disappointed turnip...
SOME critical remark in a recent number of the Magenta greatly offended the Virginia University Magazine, and that publication declares that we are altogether too self-sufficient. We regret that our Southern friends are unable to distinguish between conceit and the pride of conscious merit...