Word: suit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knowledge such as that to be gained in a law school would not be required, the course would be patronized chiefly by those who did not in the future purpose to study law. This fact would be a valuable guide to the instructor, who could model the course to suit the demands put upon it. We wish the idea a speedy realization, and trust that next year will see the course established...
...have received a communication which we are unable to print because of its length, urging that Dane Hall be redeemed from its present uses and altered to suit the needs of a university club. The writer considers the formation of such a club extremely desirable, both because many students are necessarily debarred from admittance to the more important secret societies, and because many of those who are fortunate enough to become members of them are obliged to go to heavy expense in the way of fees and assessments. This plan for a university club is by no means...
Doubtless had the Hindoos known of the change which was to be, they would have invented a word to suit the exigencies of future generations, and in addition to freshman, Webster's Unabridged would have contained fresh-woman; but such is not the case, and it would be unseemly in us to try to improve upon the Hindoos. Freshman must stand, and in using it we desire to be understood as referring to the genus fresh homo...
...much as the name, has besieged the college dormitories. And here for its labors this objectionable element finds opportunities for the grossest kind of misbehavior, and accepts them most assiduously. What it can put its hands on, it takes; what it can destroy, it destroys; what does not suit its degraded taste it very soon tones down to that taste by its own peculiar processes. And so property is stolen, doors are marred and smeared hallways are - to put it mildly - littered, lights are turned out, et cetera, et cetera. In a word, this "objectionable element" is trying to place...
...universal language, "Volapuk," has already found a rival in a language equally new, and prospectively universal, called "Pasilingua." Its inventor (who is a German) has recognized that no existing language could serve the purpose of universality, and has accordingly devised a new tongue which shall suit the mouths of all men English is acknowledged to be the dominant principle; but how far its modification is necessary may be seen from the following verse of St. Matthew, ii, 3: Et quando ils partitefer schire, to angelo deode apparifer Fosephobi in una trauma, sagano: Arisire, takare ton jungon childon et tom matren...