Word: school-boy
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...which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion, as a blunder that the greatest scholar might make in haste, and that the veriest school-boy might detect at his leisure. But all the time, while piloting Mr. Allen with great skill, as he thinks, into Charybdis, he has not noticed Scylla picking off some of his choicest recruits. Or, to speak in a way he cannot fail to understand, he has himself made various...
...could only conquer this school-boy fear of talking to a room full of people, I think that we should soon see the results in the increased efficiency of our officers. They would no longer feel that they are left almost entirely to their own judgment, and that all sins of omission or commission will be covered by the vague excuse that they did their best. Even if they are our friends, it certainly can do them no harm to ask an explanation of their actions, while, if they are not well known to the majority, a vote of want...
...reply to the extremely sensible article in the Yale Courant, quoted at length in our last issue, the Cornell Era has printed a column of school-boy rant, which goes far to prove that the muscles of the Cornell students have been developed at the expense of their intellectual powers...
...aristocratic patrons of the famous yellow-covered novels (ycleped Beadle's) can now read the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and other rather ennobling pieces, at a like price. Could the piracy so indiscriminately employed with the books of English authors be turned to some public good, the school-boy of the future might buy "Tom Brown" for a dime, and the poorest family might have its Bible, Shakspere, and Principles of Political Economy...
...school-boy wishes and my college fears...