Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...form, and how variously do we apply them! A man's taste in pictures, in tobacco, in wine, and in society, all serve as touchstones, to be applied to him by one or another of his friends. Mere acquaintances judge you by your gait, your clothes, the sound of your voice, the tie of your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different persons. But however that may be, believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities...
...strongest point appears when I try to give him a good sound scolding. He listens for a minute while my indignation is rising and my words are growing louder; but before my wrath boils over, he floods me with such a torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering...
...mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last...
...Harvard; in mathematics, solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry; in Latin, one book of Livy and two books of Horace; in Greek, one play of Euripides. French and German may be offered instead of Greek. In the languages the examinations aim to find out whether the candidate has "a sound and accurate knowledge of these languages." There are twenty fellowships, of the value of five hundred dollars each, whose object "is to give to scholars of promise the opportunity to prosecute further studies, under favorable circumstances, and likewise to open a career for those who propose to follow the pursuit...
...cannot imagine any objections to this course. It is well known that the support of the University crew will be no light matter this year, saddled as they are with debt. The money from the Freshmen will be a great help towards placing the club on a sound financial basis. From the Freshmen aid is of course expected, and this money already subscribed will go to make up the quota assessed upon the class. We have no reason to suppose that the class looks at the matter in a different light from that in which we regard...