Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Carmalt, '87. It was a genuine old-fashioned coach with six horses fastened to its solid irons. Inside and out it was covered with the most tastefully, correctly and historically costumed men in the whole parade. The guard and coachmen were dressed in long surtouts of brown pleated stuff, and the former bore an immense horn which he blew at intervals. The passengers of the coach were students and gentlemen of the period, artisans, and a lady. The costumes, with their flowered brocades, powdered wigs and delicate ruffles, mingled with the quaint leather garb of the artisans, made a most...
...there is around us, and in all our lives stuff enough to make good stories. And if there is not this material, we can never do much with what we borrow. A fellow need not necessarily confine himself to Adirondack deer hunts and the like; but almost any ordinary series of events may be idealized into something worth printing. We must take out of the mass of ephemeral, and comparatively insignificant happenings, the things lasting and significant. In other words, we must put into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures...
...beginners, then, writing on historical or similar topics is excellent practice. Doubtless in every year Harvard produces much fairly readable stuff of this kind. In these compositions the author has put enough thought to make the grouping of facts, which are not his own, still so much the expression of his mind, that the essay is sincere and of worth. Yet of such work we see too little in the college papers...
...little that they are worth, but the mass of people read these bloody tales with avidity and shuddering horror, and vow never to send their sons to such a school of iniquity as Harvard. How utterly absurd all this is! Yet the raving maniacs who write all this stuff are allowed to roam about at will to deliberately falsify, and to bring great and undeserved discredit on the fair name of our college. Let something be done quickly to put an end to this crying evil. Let every man ascertain the names of those who thus misuse their power...
Philip, Duke of Bergundy, the stuff that bank-cashiers are made of ; he gives up his country for the sake of filthy lucre, H. K. Swinscoe...