Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Evening Post comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality...
...kinds of heavy, greasy meats, there were substituted partly some lighter confections and gastronomic concoctions that would tempt the palled appetites of the languid habitues of Memorial, a general tender of thanks would be unanimously offered. And, too, in regard to dessert, we are now having the same old "stuff" that nobody has eaten for ten years. Why can't we have strawberries oftener, for instance? They are cheap, very cheap, but Memorial has not yet had them on the regular bill of fare. And for lunch, too, we still have hash and beans and archaeological pies, with "weggy-table...
...required as part of the examination papers an analytical knowledge of certain of Shakespeare's plays, including the disgusting one, "Othello." The rules also required, that the boy entering should have a knowledge of the novel called "The Mill on the Floss." Appreciating the propriety of keeping such literary stuff out of a boy's head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from...
...English universities have often remarked on the vigorous, healthy appearance of most of the students. One reason of it is that the living is excellent. In some colleges the hall dinner is much better than in others, but it may be safely asserted that in none has such stuff been served as in Memorial Hall...
...excepting their editorials (generally excellently written) and their venerable items, has been sheer nonsense; and nonsense that is not in the least amusing or laughable either, but nonsense of the most painful and tiresome kind. If it cost the writers one half the pains to write all of the stuff that it costs their readers to read it - why, I think they have our sincerest sympathy and commiseration in their woes. I call it rubbish and rot, and I claim that I am not too severe in doing so. Doleful writing makes doleful reading, and the Crimson and Advocate...