Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extension of the Thanksgiving recess from Wednesday until Monday, was entirely neglected by the faculty. The editorial was, no doubt, generated by the proper spirit, but when we know the true facts of the case we shall see that it has not the slightest ground for its flippant sarcasm. We learn from the best authority that a petition was found by the dean on his table, signed by several hundred names of students in different departments of the university whose affairs are not governed or regulated by the college faculty at all. This petition was not addressed...
...actions of some in previous years. The Post man goes on to say that students in colleges have left behind them that careful surveillance which as boys curbed their restlessness and "bumptiousness." "Bumptiousness" is a good word, and we feel sorry to call forth the powers of invective and sarcasm of the Post man who copyrighted it, by asking what it means. But, nevertheless, we do ask, and hope soon to be informed...
...last number of the Acta fairly bristled with sarcasm on the N. Y. Sun and abuse of its literary taste. The cause of the explosion was a severe criticism in the Sun of a certain sentimental, rather "gushy" sonnet on love and the tender passions, that appeared in a late number of the Acta...
After this little introduction, they all go on to smile upon those who have smiled on them, or to pour floods of weak sarcasm-and-water on the head of the Niagara Index. In spite of the general weak-mindedness of exchange editors, - a misfortume which is probably the result of having to read the college papers once in two weeks, - "collegiate journalism" has improved a great deal in the last two or three years. A few papers are silly, a good many are heavy, pretentious, or stupid, but there are only one or two left absurd enough to find...
...they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course fitted me for the ministry. And little Hope came running to meet me the other day with the strange question, "Is n't Harvard the best college...