Word: staid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale, Harvard, and the many other colleges of masculine propensities are not the only institutions at which the political excitement of the present year has risen to a feverish height. From recent reports we learn that the staid and studious halls of Vassar have been the scenes of many noisy and turbulent partisan demonstrations. Strange to say, however, the fair politicians have not rallied in support of Belva Lock-wood, as one would most naturally suppose. The college has divided on purely party lines, one contingent arraying itself under the banner of the G. O. P., the other, and smaller...
RUNNING HIGH KICK.The high kick was next in order between Fogg. '85, and Henry, '86. Kimball and Fessenden did not appear. As Fogg won on Saturday the event was a walkover for Henry, who staid in last evening longer than the champion. Henry's record was 8 feet 4 inches...
...Saturday the revolting students who have staid out so long returned to the college work. The faculty thereupon issued the following statement: "The senior class of Hamilton College has this day resumed work on the original terms set forth by the faculty. Those conditions were, in the judgment of the faculty, so fair and reasonable that they have not thought it wise or possible to make any change. Various friends of the college have suggested other conditions, but the faculty have thought it inexpedient to entertain them. Every effort which a class could possibly make to secure changes or concessions...
...gray, the M. I. T. colors. The Princeton Tiger, the Yale Courant, and Michigan Argonaut were not long in following suit. But it has remained for this year to see the greatest number added to the list. The Yale Record, then the Cornell Era, Michigan Chronicle and even the staid and sober Amherst Student, with a number of lesser journals, have all become giddy in their new dresses. They may well be proud, for their appearance is much improved and a certain individuality now attaches to each paper where before they were but one from a throng of plain, scarcely...
...Lampoon either does not seem to have solved the question of Harvard crimson. The out and out red of the Lampoon cover is altogether too frivolous for a staid college color...