Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...southern...
...While southern wind through moaning pine...
...does quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven hundred lines, in knocking modern society quite out of time. Any praise of ours must sound feeble after the tribute of one Albert T. Bledsoe, LL. D. and editor of the Southern Review, who has discovered that "the tremendous lash of satire" was not applied "with a more vigorous hand, or with a juster discrimination," by Juvenal, than by our author...
...inclined. What can be more pleasant than to shake hands with the Williams Vidette and Amherst Student, to make the acquaintance of the fair editresses from Vassar and all the mixed colleges, to see the Hobart Sentinel and Cornell Era hobnobbing together, or the Miami Student and Southern Collegian burying the hatchet and swearing eternal peace! or, what must certainly happen, to see the funny "Spectrum Lines" and jocose "Particles" each roaring and splitting his sides with laughter at the witticisms of the other! To think of the friendships with our brothers and the correspondences with our sisters...