Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Dennison Collegian is quite serious. It contains, among other things, an essay on Epitaphs, and an address to a skeleton. In the former we are told that the graveyard has always been a favorite place of resort, and that 't is "strange, and even passing strange, that the coffined clay should reveal the good which the living, breathing man failed to disclose!" The "Address," which is in verse, is remarkable for nothing but metre...