Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dreams are such stuff as we are made...
...head in hand I bring, bedecked with rue and rosemary." S. Black, of Queen's, undertook the solo, which he rendered very well. We believe His Grace the Archbishop of York on one occasion bore the same part. The ceremony concludes with the distribution of holly and other green stuff by the Provost to those who are nearest the eastern end of the Hall. On New Year's Day, another ancient custom prevails in this College. To all the guests assembled on that occasion it is the duty of the Bursar to present a needle and thread, admonishing each recipient...
...ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive adjectives strung before...
...college news is gathered and topics of universal educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line of the old regime, helping to round a man out generally, give him the best of everything to fit him for life and not stuff him with a stipulated amount in a particular time. The changed characters of the men are the fruit of all this...
...says also "that this overseeing of the clothes formed part of a recognized system is clear from the fact that they fell under the tutor's immediate charge at Oxford as well as at Cambridge. Lady Harley, in 1639, wrote to her son at Magdalen Hall, "I like the stuff for your cloths well; but the cullor of those for everyday I do not like so well; the silk chamlet I like very well, both cullor and stuff. Let your stokens be always of the same culler of your cloths, and I hope you now were Spanisch leather shows...