Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This kind of specialism, however, suggests another quite different kind which has not been very generally noticed, but which, nevertheless, is very prevalent here at Harvard and elsewhere. Reference is had to the "grind," and the "swell" (or, to be more modern, the "dude"), and the "professional" athlete. All men, who are properly called by any one of these names, and to whom any other can be applied only with a very slight degree of correctness, are specialists; and their specialism has to be attended with great injury to themselves as well as to the general interests of the college...
...face of outside opinion once more," says the writer, "I would not hesitate to affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees...
...smaller this year than is customary, partly owing to the difficulty of obtaining a respectable number of paying spectators at the games played upon our unfenced grounds, and partly from the fact that the undergraduate purse has showed great reluctance to loose its strings when called upon to help swell the subscription list. To relieve the association from its embarrassment we would suggest that a "benefit" game be played on Holmes, feeling sure that the reputation of our team is strong enough to attract a large audience,- to the great profit of the somewhat depleted coffers of the club...
...boat crossed the line a length and a half to the good, in 11 m. 13 1-2s., followed by '85 in 11m. 24 1 2s; '88, in 12m. 29 1-2s.; and '86 in 13m. Both these latter boats narrowly escaped being swamped by the swell from the referee's tug, which had steered across the course ahead of the two last crews...
...with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers only in the intellect of which it is the expression. And as the stream, choked by what it has collected, is stemmed and blocked, until the rains swell its torrent and burst the barrier; so the will, enslaved by its own surrender, frets impotently in its captivity, until the rain of grace from heaven floods the heart and sets it at liberty. For a free man, because he is free, may make himself a slave; but once a slave, because...