Word: rising
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grant that one of the recent complaints against Yale is justified. She indulges in chess clubs! Such an indulgence is inexcusable, and forebodes the most dire disaster to the college. We have watched with greatest trepidation the rise of these baneful organizations here in Cambridge. Our college chess clubs must go, before parents may feel truly safe in sending their sons to New Haven or Cambridge. But with this one exception we think we can say of the tendencies of college life, with the writer from Yale, that "Our life is neither frivolous nor insincere," and that "there...
...more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words "ecarter un peu son rideau" gave large opportunities to the guessers. Among the many mistranslations of these five words were the following: "She disobeyed his command," "she softened his rigor," "she shunned his bedside...
...them are patriarchs in which sat the professors of old; some of them are goody's chairs, rickety with many years of window-washing; some are quaintly covered with the initials of great men gone before, and all are on their last two or three legs. These chairs give rise to many amusing incidents which enliven the otherwise weary round of lecture-going. Now and then they give way all at once like the "famous one horse shay," sending the heels of the occupant high in the air and giving his cerebral system a violent shock. Some of them...
...question, English VIII. But the complaint in the first case was that a too microscopic study of a writer's work was made, while the study of his life was wholly neglected. To criticise the method of study at present pursued by Professor Hill would give rise to a host of suggestions as to the correct way in which a course of study in English literature should be carried on. We do not wish to censure our critic or criticise the ground which he has taken, but in a course which is so given up to independent research and individual...
...with the world at large and his instructors in particular - presumably for inappreciation of his own efforts in the past - by vigorous "sitting on" the work of some known or unknown classmate. Perhaps this large amount of ill nature, and what might be called literary dis-curtesy, has given rise to doubts in our instructors' minds as to the efficacy of the system...