Word: shake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...Nation takes the opportunity of a severe critique upon Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play" to shake his ambrosial locks in doubting comment on the results of said play for Harvard and the cause of Greek studies generally. It says: "College presidents will shake their heads when they read that for five months there were three or four rehearsals a week, and that for six weeks preceding the performance there was a rehearsal every day, to say nothing of the vast drain on the time and energies of the professional managers. A smaller college than Harvard...
...training. I am, therefore, now qualified by experience to talk of training. In the first place, I will mention some of its recommendations. It 's an interesting state, one that is warranted to fascinate the fair sex. Then it 's a sure remedy for unpleasant engagements; and you can shake a bore on the strength of it every time. But, my young friend, do not allow these allurements to tempt you into the rash path that leads per asthma ad astra. Breathing slowly and peaceably is a boon which you will learn how to appreciate when you have finished your...
...Shake hands once more, ere Smintheus skips from sight...
Quod fausta sis, Old Yale! Shake hands once more...