Word: staid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...perchance, a staid grandmother...
ANOTHER sign of degeneracy! The directors of the Reading-Room have subscribed for the New York Sun and the Chicago Times, - two papers always excluded by their more staid predecessors...
...there no way of altering the too sanguinary exterior of our halls? The Cubans paint their buildings yellow, pink, or blue, with variously tinted roofs; but this would give our staid dormitories a bizarre appearance, out of place in our northern climate, although, indeed, they might be dyed magenta, to match our crockery. There is, however, one improvement which we earnestly advocate, namely, the more lavish employment of woodbine or ivy. A brick building overgrown with ivy has a most venerable and even picturesque appearance. Of course, ivy could not be trained over the dormitories; but over the ends...
...surprise nearly all the students were present. The Faculty appear in a body upon the platform, and produce a much finer effect than the distribution of a select few in sentinel-boxes. The appearance of a score of ladies in the front seats strikes a visitor from a staid institution for males as somewhat peculiar. He soon begins to admire, however, and concludes that they are decidedly more ornamental than carved work or fresco. Singing is a pleasant feature of the devotional exercises, is led by a lady organist, and heartily supported by the Faculty and students. The respectful attention...
...ourselves enlightened have here only the St. Paul's Society, the Society of Christian Brethren, and the Y X. The first and foremost need in Cambridge is some association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called "The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice," or "The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates," ought to be established before we become too wedded to our rut. I should recommend that the active members of this society should...