Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot speak too warmly of the earnest, manly, and studious spirit which has pervaded in the University in recent years. I believe that the professors in the literary department are agreed in the opinion that the introduction of the elective system into the last two or two and a half years of the collegiate courses has contributed much to this result. There has been in years past much undiscriminating criticism by some ultra-conservative college officers in the East of any attempt at modifying the iron-clad curriculum. But it is noteworthy that the very colleges which have been...
...prominent journal has recently published a sarcastic article on "Harvard slang" tending to show that although we are versed in many strange tongues and, strange to say, even in our own, we never speak in any of them, but express our ripest ideas for the most part in the questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal...
...year, it is in order to frame new resolutions. Of course we have gone with the rest and have led our friends to expect marked changes in our conduct. As it is not modest, however, to talk of ourselves, we would turn our attention to others, and would speak of a few new year's resolutions, which would, we think, benefit our friends. First, are the overseers capable of turning over a new leaf? Appearances say, no; but, as appearances are often deceitful, we would hope, yes. As a new year's gift to them we would submit our prayer...
...whom the King had imported, and wealthy Greeks at home and abroad began making endowments upon the institution. By 1848 most of the German professors had given place to Greeks, who had generally studied abroad. Since then the University, under the care of men who, unlike the German professors, speak the same language as the students, has grown rapidly; now it occupies large and handsome buildings, situated in a well-kept square, and it numbers on its rolls some 2,500 students and 130 professors...
...latest and ever recurring complaint. Hats, umbrellas and books, all disappear in a most sudden and mysterious manner. Those who take other people's property, whether from absent-mindedness or not, seem to have no regard for time or place. Memorial Hall and the gymnasium suffer alike. But to speak seriously, things are in a bad condition when a man cannot leave his hat on a hook in the gymnasium and find it again after exercising. Affairs are just the same at Memorial. Books and umbrellas disappear as rapidly there. Moreover, we cannot lay all the blame on that convenient...