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Word: staid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball went, soon after the first draw, close to the Druid goal and staid there for fully five minutes. Then it soon returned, and the Druids managed by quick play, aided by the peculiarities of the ground which troubled the Harvard defence, to score three goals inside of 15 minutes. The game was to be for an hour and a half, and our men not discouraged, went to work with a will to overcome the lead of the Druids. By steady play, they soon had the ball most of the time at the Druids' end, and before time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Harvard Champions. | 6/1/1885 | See Source »

Princeton has found weekly journalism too slow for the present rapid whirl of college life. The Princetonian, well known for same years as a staid weekly periodical resembling the Advocate, but a trifle more newsy, appeared on Friday in a new form very like the CRIMSON. The New Jersey students will hereafter receive their rations of news items, accounts of base-ball games, etc., with the proper leaven of editorial, not at lengthy intervals of a a week each, but every other day. The editors whose enterprise has brought about this change, and the college which is to receive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1885 | See Source »

...Annex club has at last received a name. It is called the "Hedonian." It is surprising that these staid and intellectual young maidens should thus publicly announce that, after all, they are seeking for mere pleasure, that they have sworn allegiance to Epicurus, and that they can think of nothing more noble than the principles of the Cyrenaics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/31/1885 | See Source »

...thought was good, but his delivery had the fault of its school. It was too oratorical-showing the speaker's art too perceptibly. Whenever he digressed into illustration, however, Mr. Dougherty was perfect. The audience certainly appreciated it, for Sanders rang with laughter, in a way which that staid old theatre has not witnessed since the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dougherty Lecture. | 3/24/1885 | See Source »

...Memorial Hall at the lunch hour. And all because the gentlemen of the party were ignorant of the rules of the hall, and did not remove their hats. The stamping which greeted them was simply outrageous, and its authors well deserved the hisses showered upon them by the more staid of the members. Although the greater number of men who engaged in the sport were freshmen, a considerable number of upper-classmen, shame be upon them, encouraged the mischief-making youngsters by stamping themselves. The head waiter knows his busines well enough to correct any breaches of etiquette which visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/27/1885 | See Source »

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