Word: staid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number the Advocate appeared in a new light; no longer as the staid, conservative mentor of the Harvard press, now crying out against an abuse already ended, and now giving a decided opinion on a question already settled. This character it has put off once for all. It is now the aggressive champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What...
...staid professor...