Word: shod
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this factor in solving the weighty problem of electives, however unfortunate and harmful, theoretically, the practice may be. The marking system when in use at all should be merely a clerical devise for the classification of students, but when every instructor is permitted to ride his pet hobby rough shod over the necks of his pupils, and estimate work and standing by purely arbitrary standards, it is not very strange that men should in some measure attempt to equalize and justify the results each in his own particular case. It is not in human nature, even if it is theoretically...
...practical knowledge of the machine. In England, where the bicycle has been gaining rapidly in popularity since its invention and adoption, the physicians who know the machines thoroughly and have had many opportunities to study the effects of their usage, are very warm in their praise of the rubber-shod horse, and often use them themselves in making their various calls...
Trite as the subject may be, we would again call the attention of the authorities to the necessity of having more plank walks in the yard. The expense of providing these would be more than balanced by the pleasure of being able to cross the yard dry shod...
Then came a squad of high College officials, mounted on ostriches, each bird being shod with gold, and wearing the shield of the University emblazoned on its breast. The skill of the riders did not seem to command the attention that it deserved, perhaps because they have so long ridden a high horse, that every one expected them to do it well...
When we flew o'er the glittering ice, shod well...