Word: sway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earth bows' heath golden sway...
AEstheticism is voted bad form and vulgar in English society. Athleticism has taken its place, and all sorts of vagaries in the worship of physical culture hold full sway...
...during its tender years, there is no telling what would have become of the college. The careful and nourishing development of centuries has brought to use the suave gentility of the festive "bangs;" had we started upon the other path, today we should undoubtedly be under the wild, weird sway of o'er barbarous aestheticism...
Where overhanging limbs protecting sway...
...system of self-government by college students is not altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days...