Word: rot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall it be when the instructor says "Doncherknow?" or when we meet a friend who declares that "this is all rot...
...questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river...
...autumn let us send out foot ball teams to the various schools, and attempt to awaken there an interest in college sports which will induce men, otherwise uninterested, to enter with a will into steady athletic work. Many of our old boats which are making strenuous endeavors to rot away in idleness, if sent to the different schools, more widely than heretofore, would bring us in a few years the most valuable material for successful crews. This idea could enter into the treatment of every phase of athletics, and tennis and lacrosse would feel its influence as well...
...done, so much boiling and bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these chimerical dabblings in the literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed to float about in the air till they collapse of their own accord. But this is evidently untrue, or Boston must have jumped from the cradle into long trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores...
...nonsense of the most painful and tiresome kind. If it cost the writers one half the pains to write all of the stuff that it costs their readers to read it - why, I think they have our sincerest sympathy and commiseration in their woes. I call it rubbish and rot, and I claim that I am not too severe in doing so. Doleful writing makes doleful reading, and the Crimson and Advocate are reponsible for many dolorous pangs among their readers. I claim that I have a fair sense of humor and can appreciate wit when...