Word: tails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with no ordinary emotions that we read the last Lampoon. Aside from the standing invective against the CRIMSON, there is little that is worthy of commendation. The front page dragon has no reflex fork of remorse on his tail and is far from fierce enough, if we may judge from our own experience of his annual appearance. But what delicacy of outline, what beauty of finish some of the cartoons exhibit. Surely the blessings of the Lampoon's senior board are brightening as they take their flight. But in justice to your great compeer, the Police Gazette, we implore...
...will put in a disclaimer. I am no Anglophobiac in this matter. English ways and manners are right and proper among English men. They are part of the English system and dove-tail in with existing institutions. I only protest against their importation here where they are foreign to the climate, distasteful to the inhabitants, and ridiculous in the propagators...
...Christian mythology ceases to inspire poetry. The classical poets return to the dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is the old popular Devil with the horns, tail, and cloven foot, which he acquired in the Middle Ages period of his evolution, His principal occupation is to play the devil with old women and other simple people, and we find little new in him. This same Devil has appeared from time to time ever since the Middle Ages...
Senior class debates have been successful in one respect at least, they have developed a real fourth of July orator. Witness: "the great American Eagle stands with one foot in Alaska and the other on Cape Cod; dips its tail in the St. Lawrence and drinks from the Gulf of Mexico."-(Amherst Student...
...consideration with another, probably made up its mind that the best thing to do is to gracefully yield up the ghost. The college, though fully appreciating the strenuous exertions of last year's crew, are quite willing to cease contesting where we are bound always to be the "tail-piece."-[Princetonian...