Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considered equally dangerous to the purity of the undergraduate mind. The best of the joke is that though proper plays may be forbidden, it is probably not in the power of the vice-chancellor or any body else to stop the half-circus, half-music-hall performances which always step into the place of the ousted drama. - [Pall Mall Gazette...
...three times the quantity of passengers that it can decently accommodate. When one does not wish to remain half an hour in the open air waiting for another car, it is unpleasant, to say the least, to be compelled to stand upon a small portion of a car-step (especially on a cold, windy night,) during nearly the entire trip. It is more than unpleasant; it is positively an injustice, if the company has at all in view the comfort of its passengers, - a matter which seems to admit of doubt. Now, why cannot two cars leave Boston...
...seems desirable. Yet it is not possible that her course should not be influenced to some extent by the reforms and innovations introduced at other colleges. The progress of the movement towards co-education at Columbia, therefore, has been watched with interest by all Harvard men. How far the step Columbia has taken, slight as it is, though containing the germs of future action of greater extent, is of any general significance it is impossible to say. The board of trustees has decided that although it is inexpedient to admit women into the regular classes with young...
...method are numerous. Who has not observed the breathless interest with which the entrance of any procession on the stage is now greeted? Perhaps it is the solemnity, the grandeur of a marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail...
...studies pursued are the acquiring of a graceful step and ease of manner. The importance of these the capable and efficient instructors quickly impress upon one with a club and a choice vocabulary of oaths. No rhetoric is taught the pupils; indeed they are taught that "silence is golden" in every case, excepting when a delicate musical effect is to be produced. Then loud whispering and giggling is firmly insisted on, to heighten the impression. Applications for admission are received at the stage door of the theatre. The fee for instruction is merely nominal. The only requirement is to pass...